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Institutional Investor Engagement Project: Final Report (November 2006)
This report identifies ways of improving institutional investor awareness of and allocations to the Private Equity asset class.

Finding the Key: Canadian Institutional Investors and Private Equity (June 2004)
This report explores the role of institutional investors (i.e. corporate and public sector pensions, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, and so forth) in Canada and the U.S. In the summer of 2003, interviews were conducted with key informants representing 74 institutional funds, with headquarters in all regions of Canada, on issues relevant to their interest or activity in private equity at home or abroad. At the same time, senior managers of 20 of the largest pensions, endowments and funds-of-funds in the U.S. were interviewed concerning their market experience and interest in Canadian private equity opportunities.

Foreign VC Investment in Canada: A Profile of Foreign Investors and Domestic Investees (October 2003)
This report provides a high-level profile of a small number of foreign venture capital (VC) investors, including both those that do and do not invest in Canada, and of Canadian firms financed by foreign and domestic VC funding.