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The Iowa Municipal Fire & Police Retirement System, based in West Des Moines, has allocated $188m in new and follow-on commitments to private equity, according to a recent flash report on the pension fund’s website.
IK Small Cap II Fund, a fund owned and managed by European private equity firm IK Partners, has agreed to sell its stake in GeoDynamics, a Belgian software firm focused on solutions for Human Resources finance professionals, to Blinqx.
Blackford Capital, a lower middle market private equity firm, has closed the sale of portfolio company Mopec Group, a supplier of equipment, consumables, and services for pathology and anatomy professionals, to PE firm Waud Capital Partners.
US private equity firm KKR is reportedly considering selling its majority stake in Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu, in a deal estimated to be worth several hundred billion yen (equivalent to several billion dollars), according to a report from the Nikkei business daily on Tuesday.
The US PE industry, via the American Investment Council, is gearing up to push the incoming Trump administration for expanded access to individual retirement savings, potentially unlocking trillions of investment dollars for its funds, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Pemberton Capital Advisors, a European private credit manager backed by insurers Legal & General, has adopted global fintech Broadridge’s Sentry Private Credit Portfolio Management solution as it looks to scale its private debt and CLO businesses.
Lim Hyoung-seok, a former Vice President at KKR Korea, has left the global private equity firm after nine years to establish his own private equity fund, Neos Equity Partners, according to a report by the Korea Economic Daily.
Coalesce Capital, a private equity firm focused on investing in business services companies, has completed a majority growth recapitalisation in executive compensation and leadership consultancy, Pearl Meyer & Partners.
Global investment firm Carlyle’s Global Credit platform has provided a strategic capital package of NOK2.75bn ($250m) to Jordanes ASA, one of Norway’s leading brand houses to finance a management buyout of Jordanes, led by Co-Founders Jan Bodd and Stig Sunde.
Wall Street is gearing up for a resurgence in initial public offerings as private equity firms including Blackstone, Carlyle, and Hellman & Friedman look to capitalise on buoyant US equity markets to offload investments, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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