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CPPIB invests over $5bn in private equity amid renewed market appeal
The pension giant, Canada's largest, recorded a 3.8% return in the quarter, driven by strong private equity and credit gains. These returns were partially offset by losses in fixed income due to rising US Treasury yields. CPPIB's net assets neared C$700bn ($489bn), hitting this milestone five years ahead of initial projections by Canada's Chief Actuary. CEO John Graham highlighted the fund's active investment strategy, noting that more than 40 deals were signed or closed in the quarter. Among its key transactions, CPPIB acquired a 24.5% stake in video-game services firm Keywords Ventures Ltd., committed $700m to an EQT Private Capital Asia-managed fund, and pledged about $1bn to the proposed merger of packaging firms Novolex and Pactiv Evergreen Inc. The shift toward private equity comes as institutional investors allocate more capital to the sector over private debt. According to iCapital, which oversees $200bn in alternative assets, this trend reflects expectations of lower interest rates and a more favorable environment for IPOs....
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BC Partners eyes up to '6bn for new flagship fund, leveraging strong exit activity
Despite a challenging fundraising environment, BC Partners is relying on its strong track record of exits to attract investors. In 2024, the firm returned '12bn to limited partners and co-investors, marking its highest annual distribution. Key deals included selling its majority stake in Dutch generic drugmaker Synthon to Goldman Sachs' alternative investment division, divesting its controlling stake in Canadian security firm GardaWorld, and listing Springer Nature AG in Germany. The firm also exited Italian frozen bakery business Forno d'Asolo and sold a stake in IMA Industria Macchine Automatiche SpA to BDT & MSD Partners. Investor preferences have shifted toward larger asset managers with diversified strategies or niche specialists, making fundraising more competitive. BC Partners closed its previous fund, BC Partners Fund XI, in 2022 with '6.9bn in commitments, achieving a net internal rate of return of 16%, according to Bloomberg data. With '40bn in assets under management across private equity, private debt, and real estate, BC Partners is focusing on mid-market transactions, particularly defensive growth companies valued between '1bn and '2bn. The firm sees these businesses as offering strong upside while maintaining flexibility for exits....
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Adapting The IPO Roadmap For Today's Market
The IPO roadmap used to be clearly paved. It typically involved your team charging through a few successful funding rounds to eventually ring the opening day bell. The path is different now ' namely, slower and more arduous. Investors are highly selective. Who's to blame them, with the IPO market left craving pre-pandemic levels' Neither rising interest rates nor a fresh change of command in the U.S. government help fortify confidence in our economy, either. The 'what ifs' are countless when it comes to the dangers lurking in a digital environment. This landscape is uncharted territory, after all. And investors know this, which is one significant factor impacting the new rules of the IPO game. To make matters worse, IBM reports the global average cost of a data breach in 2024 was $4.88 million, a 10% increase over the previous year and the highest total ever. Third-party disruptions were another major takeaway from 2024, with the CrowdStrike outage still fresh. Plus, cybersecurity risks and management liability now intersect. With business email compromise attacks increasing daily and AI-powered phishing becoming more sophisticated, executives face heightened pressure to strengthen cybersecurity defenses. Investors and stakeholders may hold executives accountable for failing to protect company assets adequately....
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How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water'and Keep It Out
There's something scary in the water at Cape Fear. For years, chemicals giant DuPont and the company Chemours, which it spun off in 2015, manufactured long-lasting synthetic chemicals'known as forever chemicals'that made their way into the environment in this corner of North Carolina, ultimately ending up in the Cape Fear River. This is one of America's PFAS hot spots, though forever chemicals are also found in tap water in thousands of locations around the US. (DuPont has been involved in several class action lawsuits across the United States related to the chemicals since the early 2000s.) Specifically, DuPont and Chemours had used PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, for making Teflon, widely used in nonstick cookware. But, in the process, they contaminated the groundwater. Tests have shown that drinking water in this part of North Carolina can have levels of PFAS many times higher than the federal limit. The health effects of PFAS are frightening'from increasing your risk of cancer and obesity to lowering fertility....
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