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💥 Join leading investors at the Australia Investors Forum to discuss the next wave of growth opportunities in private markets. EQT has agreed to acquire Orikan, a provider of integrated parking, enforcement, and compliance technology solutions, as the private equity firm continues to expand its investments in high-growth technology businesses across the Asia-Pacific region.

💥 Explore how private equity is driving growth across sectors at the Private Equity Europe Forum. Avio has secured a €109.4 million investment from private equity firm Advent International, which will acquire a 7% minority stake through a reserved capital increase to support the company’s long-term growth strategy and U.S. expansion. The investment strengthens Avio’s financial position as demand for solid rocket motors continues to rise across Europe and the United States.

Register for the Canada West Institutional Forum The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) has announced a series of executive appointments, as it finetunes its leadership team. “These changes will simplify decision-making and reporting lines, create new opportunities for growth for several executives and position OMERS very well for the future,” said Blake Hutcheson, the pension fund’s chief executive officer and acting chief investment officer.

💥 Explore trends shaping global buyout markets at the 9th Private Equity Europe Forum. Continental has agreed to sell its ContiTech industrial business to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds in a transaction valued at €4 billion, with an additional performance-based earnout of up to €250 million, completing the company’s transformation into a pure-play tire manufacturer.

🔥 Join key private equity players at the 9th Private Equity Europe Forum to discuss buyout strategies, market opportunities, and value creation in today’s evolving investment landscape. easyJet has agreed in principle to an improved takeover proposal from private investment firm Castlelake that values the UK budget airline at up to $7.3 billion (£5.5 billion), paving the way for one of Europe’s largest aviation buyouts in recent years.

Join us at the Institutional Summer Retreat The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) has promoted Justin Scripps to managing investment director of global fixed income, effective July 1. He succeeds Arnie Phillips, who retired at the end of June. In his new role, Scripps will oversee CalPERS’ approximately $175B portfolio of investment-grade and high-yield corporate securities, foreign sovereign debt, securitized products and U.S. Treasuries.

Register for the Canada West Institutional Forum The Ontario Pension Board has appointed Steven French as senior vice-president of pension modernization, adding a veteran pension technology executive to lead the organization’s ongoing modernization strategy. According to his LinkedIn profile, French brings extensive experience leading large-scale, multi-year business transformation initiatives across the public sector, with a particular focus on pension administration.

Register for the Canada West Institutional Forum The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) is continuing its capital rotation strategy, advancing three investment sales across its private equity and infrastructure businesses as deal activity strengthens across private markets. The transactions follow a challenging year for private equity, during which elevated interest rates and muted deal activity weighed on valuations and realizations.

Join us at the Annual Nordics Sweden Institutional Forum While most institutional investors have spent the past two years debating how much to allocate to U.S. technology giants, Sweden’s AP3 has for some time quietly built individual positions in Korean chipmakers and Taiwanese manufacturers through a bottom-up, stock-by-stock approach — resisting the pull toward the handful of mega-cap technology names that now dominate global indices.

Three allocators, one quiet through-line: the crowd is chasing AI and America, so the edge is everywhere else. Norway’s biggest institutional names gathered at Lily Country Club in June. The Norwegian Government Pension Fund. KLP. Folksam. The Nobel Foundation. Nordea, SEB and Länsförsäkringar. This is a closed-door, invitation-only event. The sessions stay in the room, however, our Sidelines team was on the ground, capturing candid, unscripted insights straight from the sidelines.