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Industry News
First Eagle Completes Napier Park Acquisition

The transaction was first announced in March.

08.01.22
People Moves
Great Hill Partners Hires Tech Director

He will help the investment team and portfolio company leaders to innovate and scale through cloud, data, analytics, artificial intelligence and security transformation initiatives.

08.01.22
Industry News
NYC Retirement Systems Report -8.65% Return

All major public asset classes besides commodities suffering heavy losses, the plan said.

08.01.22
In The News
Secondaries Sees Discounts Where Buyout GPs Don't

Private equity performance has held relatively steady compared with the pain in the public markets so far this year. That may start changing over the new few weeks.

08.01.22
In The News
Asset Managers Ramp Up ESG In Fixed-Income

Asset managers are now almost twice as likely as they were last year to implement ESG considerations within fixed income, according to a survey conducted by the Index Industry Association.

08.01.22
In The News
Fla. Gov. Proposes Anti-ESG Law For State-Run Funds

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed legislation Thursday that would ban state pension funds from selecting investments based on environmental, social and governance factors, bringing a growing backlash against these investment standards to the shores of the nation’s third-largest state.

08.01.22
In The News
Ares Preps For Launch In Rocky Market Of Seventh Flagship Private Equity Fund

The firm’s other flagship PE offering, Ares Special Opportunities Fund II, remains in the market after its hard-cap was bumped up to $7.1 billion from $6.1 billion.

08.01.22
In The News
El-Erian, Crescenzi Explain Why Investors Are Betting On The Fed

“The market is looking for a pivot … when the only reason you would get it is [if] the economy collapses, said economist Mohamed El-Erian

08.01.22
Industry News
CalSTRS Reports -1.3% Return

The negative performance was primarily driven by public equity and fixed-income.

07.29.22
Small- to Mid-Cap
Southern Plan Makes Smid-Cap Growth Hire

The plan made a decision in its domestic small- to mid-cap growth equity search at today’s board meeting.

07.29.22