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HarbourVest and AP7 introduce a private equity solution together including a $835m anchor investment

Private Equity Insights

The Swedish government pension fund AP7 is joining partners with HarbourVest Partners, a worldwide private markets investment expert, as a founding investor in a new private equity strategy. This started in 2007 with the now-listed HVPE, which provided daily liquidity to investors outside of the United States.

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Because the Domain Makes it Really Real

This is going to be BIG.

What might be a more relevant date is May 22nd, 2007. Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997.

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Is The Canadian Model Really Under Siege?

Pension Pulse

“It will come under a different guise, it’ll be said, ‘you should invest more in Canada’, ‘you should invest more in infrastructure’, ‘we should let people have access to their capital earlier’, or whatever excuse may be the fact of the day. If the government went into your bank account and took that money, you’d be up in arms.

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CPP Investments' CEO John Graham on Bloomberg Wealth

Pension Pulse

While working at Xerox as a scientist, he completed his MBA at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto in 2007. In 2008, during the GFC, he joined CPP Investments working in the Total Portfolio Management group (now Total Fund Management) before moving into Private Investments.

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Suyi Kim on What Drives Success at CPP Investments' Giant PE Portfolio

Pension Pulse

At C$146 billion, equivalent to a quarter of the entire C$575 billion pension fund for some 21 million Canadians and forecast to grow bigger every year, Kim leads a program that is also heading into unchartered territory. Most were on the fund's private equity team and were informed early last month, according to two of the people.

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OTPP Acquires KKR’s Stake in Australian Carbon Markets Platform GreenCollar

Pension Pulse

Jennifer L of Carbon Credits reports Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan buys majority stake in KKR’s Australian carbon project developer: A Canadian pension fund Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) has agreed to acquire KKR’s stake in a leading Australian carbon markets platform GreenCollar. since 2007.

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IMCO's CEO Bert Clark Bids Farewell to 2023

Pension Pulse

2023 serves as another good reminder of just how hard it is to accurately predict near term macroeconomic or capital market events. But investment success that is premised on near-term macro or capital market predictions requires not just predicting the event, but also getting the timing right. That is hard to do on a consistent basis.

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