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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.

 

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...)

 

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