Venture capital is a challenging asset class for CPPIB's massive scale
Geoffrey Rubin · Geoffrey Rubin – The Modern Canadian Model at CPPIB (Capital Allocators, EP.280) · Nov 14, 2022 · at 32:00
Geoffrey Rubin, Chief Investment Strategist at CPPIB, discusses the pension fund's active investment departments and the operational challenge of sizing venture capital investments at mega-fund scale.
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“And VC was a challenging one for us just given our scale and size as to the role of a VC program within that overall portfolio. But we do have that there.”
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