Pension Fund PE or Dawson Partners
Am gearing up for recruiting (I know I am super early). I know I want to go straight to the buy side. Re the above, would you guys take a pension fund PE or Dawson?
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Dawson comp will be somewhat higher
Feels pretty easy to go from Dawson to a pension if it turns out you don’t like it there. Not sure you could as easily go the other way around (pension to Dawson)
Dawson probably works you longer hours
Basically the question is do you want to work at a GP or an LP
for me its just that dawson is secondaries but i want to be in direct pe investing and a lot of the bigger players (altas, onex, brookfield) dont take interns/new grads. does this change your answer at all? have also seen people go from omers to altas and onex if that helps.
I think if you wanted to do Altus/Brookfield I’d do banking first, rather than a pension fund
I don’t know which of banking vs Dawson would set you up better, so I don’t want to speak out of line
Would say that analysts from OMERS and CPP have had exits to other large-scale PE shops (KKR, Global Infra Partners, Altas, Onex, etc...). CPP has had tons of analyst vintages that have gone off to join megafunds, just do a LinkedIn search. But would recommend Canadian IB for the most optionality (going to PE, banking in the US - see all of the CIBC ppl that jumped ship to Evercore NY, etc...)
Saw the cibc to evercore point as well. Do you know why so many ppl left? Or was it just regular lateraling?
Well it’s an opportunity to move to NY, make 1.5x the amount of money, and work at a substantially better firm (deal flow, prestige, exit ops)
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