Domain Capital Closes $768M Entertainment Fund; Boston Retirement Launches $115M Credit Search
Domain Capital Group wrapped its second entertainment fund with $768M across the main fund and related vehicles. The fund extends Domain’s push across film libraries, television participation, and music catalogs, with room for literary, theatrical, and sports-linked assets, and adds another specialized strategy close to a market still rewarding differentiated sector exposure.
Other fundraising updates includes Climate Investment closing its first growth equity fund with $450M for decarbonization-focused climate tech, the European Investment Fund-managed ETCI preparing a Q2 launch for a platform targeting €15B in commitments, and ICECAPITAL collecting more than €300M across first closes for a global private debt fund and Housing Fund VII.
On the allocator side, Boston Retirement System opened an RFP for a $115M private debt mandate spanning credit opportunities, distressed debt, and direct lending, while New Mexico PERA weighed $50M allocations to Invesco US Income Fund and Realty Income US Core Plus Fund, plus an $8M follow-on to General Catalyst Creation Fund III and a full secondary sale of its EnCap Energy Capital Fund XI interest. Iowa IPERS also made concrete selections, hiring Florin, Capital Fund Management, and AHL for absolute return, alongside BentallGreenOak and CBRE for core and core-plus real estate, and Plymouth County Retirement Association moved Oaktree, Brigade, Ares, and Manulife forward in its multi-asset credit search.
Additionally, a recent Dakota Live! podcast episode featured a panel discussion with LPs focused on current allocation priorities, covering governance, pacing, staffing and manager selection considerations shaping deployment decisions.
In people news, Equip Super named CFO Marc Pizzichetta acting CEO as its permanent leadership search continues.
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TAMPs Have Become the Gatekeepers of RIA Distribution
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Sports Has Become an Asset Class. Are You Fluent?
Everyone at the table is talking about sports. Not everyone knows what they're talking about.
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Dakota Sports Investing is a monthly briefing on the deals, platforms, and investors reshaping the asset class — written for professionals who need to be informed, not just interested.