Investor Commitments

We spotlight five firms making their debut on the Global Investor 100.

CPP Investments dominates the GI 100 once again, with its PE exposure double the average of the 10 next-largest investors.

The $639bn insurer has made headway in recent years across co-investments, emerging managers and the secondaries market.

The sovereign investor, which ranked 13th in this year’s list, is well known for encouraging its GPs to innovate sustainably and expand into new areas of investment.

Heady fundraising could force GPs to deploy and inflate valuations. Far from being concerned, Stephen Whatmore spies a lucrative path to exit for QIC’s private capital portfolio.

Firms must ensure individual investors are sufficiently educated, said executives from Skandia Mutual Life Insurance Company and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan at Invest Europe’s Investors’ Forum last week.

The US's largest public pension deployed $12.3bn to PE last year, its second straight year of $10bn-plus deployment.

Investor money is flowing toward those that can offer scale, specialisation or both, Partners Group CEO David Layton told PEI.

Through H1 2021, private equity and venture capital investments in Brazil totalled $5.7bn, according to LAVCA – more than the full-year total in 2020.

Investors are turning to impact to direct their money towards areas that align with their missions and values.