The $19.4 billion Ohio School Employees Retirement System (SERS) in Columbus selected three funds, adding exposure to credit and buyout strategies at trustees’ December board meeting. In a ...

Despite a holiday-shortened week, investment firms are wasting no time building their teams in early 2025, with Warburg Pincus/Lendlease, H.I.G. Capital, and Deerpath Capital among those announcing ...

Private credit strategies drew billions upon billions of institutional investor capital in the last couple of years, but will the trend continue in 2025? Blockbuster fund closes dominated the second ...

The December trustees' meeting of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System (Penn PSERS) Board saw two key fund additions to the $77 billion pension system. Through June 30, 2024, ...

The Texas County & District Retirement System (TCDRS) in Austin rounded out its credit and private equity investment portfolios with over $400 million in commitments in the final weeks of 2024. The ...

D.E. Shaw’s multi-strategy funds saw outsized returns in 2024, prompting the $65 billion hedge fund firm to return billions in profits to its outside investors. Riding a wave of positive gains across ...

Kentucky's state and county retirement systems invested a total of $300 million in a real return fund in a bid to continue to grow the systems’ allocations to the inflation-busting asset class.

The first business day of 2025 saw six private equity and credit transactions in the U.S. and Canada: A $400 million CLO close, acquisitions by Next Edge Capital, H.I.G Capital, One Equity Partners ...

Here's a quick snapshot of the top 10 most read (and shared) stories published on Alternatives Watch in December. Our ranking is in ascending order, with the most popular story at the end of this post ...

Global investment firms EQT and Temasek closed out 2024 with the sale of their renewable energy venture O2 Power for $1.5 billion, marking a successful exit from what began as a greenfield startup at ...

If the last 12 months were indicative of anything, it was that investors remain hungry for liquidity from their private markets portfolios — and that pursuit is driving unprecedented expansion in the ...

U.S. public pensions deployed $10.2 billion into private markets in December, with over 80 commitments spread across various strategies, according to AW Research's latest Investor Scorecard. Private ...