NEWS

Ontario Municipal’s PE head to step down

By Muskan Arora

Michael Graham, global head for private equity at the $97bn Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System will retire in 2025.

Post his retirement in early 2025, Graham will continue serving as a senior adviser at the firm, as per the recent news release.

Graham joined the system in 2004 as a vice president on the private equity team, eventually being promoted to the role of global head of PE in 2020.

After Graham’s departure, his responsibilities will be divided at the strategy level and transition to Eric Haley and Michael Bock.

Haley will now lead the buyout strategy and teams for the firm’s private equity team.

Block will lead a new mandate named private capital and has been appointed as the head of private capital.

The system allocates C$251bn to its private equity sleeve and the PE portfolio returned net 3.9% in the calendar year 2023.