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Have heard that the issue is primarily really bad hours at the moment - high turnover means they are understaffed while deal flow is the same (usually quite high from my understanding). But when they are understaffed like that, there is no longer any value prop to taking a lower pay (if hours are as bad as banking / GPs, why stay?). Also imagine some other issues mentioned in this thread contribute, like it being difficult / slow to move up within the org.

 
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Based on a few primary sources, I don’t actually think that’s true. From what I understand they will sometimes originate and invite GPs to be co-sponsors with them (but they will almost always invest alongside a GP, even if they originate). Then they also do plenty of more traditional co-invest where a GP originates and they piggyback off the GPs diligence. So do a fair bit of both, which is why it gets busy when they don’t hire enough.

Again, this is what friends at the firm have told me, so could be wrong. Maybe the CPP employee in this thread could confirm or add colour.

 

We would literally just wait until Macquarie, Bain, TPG, Carlyle would send us co-invest deal flow and then we'd use their models and memos to paste into our 70 page decks. We never took the lead on any deal and we got priority because we could write very large cheques. The leadership on the PE side was pretty poor, but certainly not as poor as it is now. I was in NY btw.

 

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