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TPT Retirement Solutions, a UK-based workplace pension scheme, is to make a c£75 million impact investment through its defined contribution (DC) Master Trust default fund.
Members of TPT’s DC default investment strategy, whose investments are advised by AllianceBernstein, will over the long-term, increasingly see their pensions allocated to investments nurturing positive societal impacts and tackling global social and environmental problems, as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
While seeking investment opportunities offering high growth potential to enhance returns, the fund will increase exposure to investments attaining strong positive impacts like social housing, green infrastructure, and renewable energy. The
The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System (PennSERS) has made an additional commitment of up to $125 million to two private equity funds managed by Sentinel Capital Partners, according to a report by Pension & Investments.
The report cites an email from spokeswoman Pamela Hill as confirming that an allocation of up to $100 million to middle-market fund Sentinel Capital Partners VII has been approved by the £33.9 billion pension fund’s board with and additional $25 million allocated to lower middle-market fund Sentinel Junior Capital II.
PennSERS has a target PE allocation of 12% with its actual allocation standing at 13% as of 31 March, 2022.
Red Mountain Capital Partners (Red Mountain) has launched Red Mountain Capital Advisors (RMCA) and Red Mountain Securities (RMS), an investment banking platform focused exclusively on providing advisory services for middle market public and private companies and their owners.
RMCA and RMS represent the evolution of Red Mountain from an investment management firm that invested in middle market and small cap public and private companies, adding value by offering constructive advice to their management teams and boards, to an investment banking advisory firm with an owner’s perspective and an emphasis on value creation.
RMCA is led by Founding Partners Chris Teets,
Palisade Real Assets has acquired Eco2 Management Services Limited (EMSL), a UK-based renewable energy asset management and development company.
The acquisition accelerates Palisade Real Assets’ energy transition investment ambitions in the United Kingdom and Europe and will underpin a dedicated Bioenergy Platform focused on anaerobic digestion assets and adjacent infrastructure.
The Bioenergy Platform will own and operate anaerobic digestion assets that capture and convert energy from organic waste into efficient heat, electricity and transport solutions. It will aggregate bioenergy infrastructure assets – in what is currently a fragmented sector – to build a bioenergy enterprise.
HRL Morrison & Co (Morrison & Co), a specialist infrastructure asset management firm, has acquired a 33.3% stake in Spanish open access wholesale fibre operator, Lyntia Networks (Lyntia).
Lyntia operates an extensive metro and long-haul fibre network in Spain spanning more than 43,000 km, providing B2B connectivity services on a wholesale basis to telcos and carriers, cloud providers and data centres, amongst other businesses. Lyntia offers coverage across Spain, with the second largest market share in the dark fibre market. It is the only national carrier-neutral operator operating in both lit and dark fibre markets.
Morrison & Co’s investment
DeciBio Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in and advising precision medicine start-ups, has invested in a $55 million seed funding round for Replay, led by KKR & Co Inc and OMX Ventures.
Additional participants included ARTIS Ventures, Lansdowne Partners, SALT, and Axial.
As part of DeciBio Ventures’ strategy-heavy and supportive VC model, DeciBio Ventures is also providing Replay with ongoing strategic support.
Replay’s portfolio of next-generation genomic medicine technologies aims to solve the key challenges currently limiting clinical progress, including the need for increased payload capacity and off-the-shelf cell therapies that substantially reduce cost of goods, improve production speed,
Coller Capital and Hahn & Company (Hahn & Co) have closed the largest GP-led transaction in Asia. The transaction is for Ssangyong C&E Co, Ltd (Ssangyong), a Korean cement manufacturer actively expanding into waste management businesses.
The transaction’s total size is approximately $1.5 billion. Coller Capital and its co-investors were the largest investor group and co-led the transaction alongside another leading global secondary player, while Hahn & Co, deploying funds into the company for the third time, is committing a significant amount of capital. The mix of investors in the continuation vehicle formed for this GP-led transaction is intended to
Atwater Capital (Atwater), a media and entertainment-focused private equity firm, has completed an additional investment of an undisclosed sum in the independent US studio wiip, a leading producer of premium episodic content.
Launched in 2018, wiip has quickly established a reputation as an independent entertainment company focused on delivering outstanding storytelling in TV and film. Atwater first invested in wiip in 2020, with Vania Schlogel, Atwater’s Founder and Managing Partner, joining wiip’s advisory board at the time.
Atwater further supported the company with a debt facility in that same year.
In June 2021, leading South Korean content producer behind
Altruistic has raised £15 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm, Molten.
One Rock Capital Partners, LLC (One Rock), has successfully completed the acquisition of Prefere Resins Group (Prefere) from Silverfleet Capital.
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