135: Insights from CPP Investments: Canada’s Largest Global Pension Fund - With Suyi Kim

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Business, Investing, Management, News, Business News

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this interview, we return to Canada. Having interviewed Jo Taylor of OTPP last year, this time we sought out one of the most well-known and successful women in private equity, someone who is also proving to be a huge role model for young women pursuing careers in the investment industry.

Suyi Kim, educated at the University of Seoul and then Stanford, explains the attraction PE had for her as she pivoted from consultancy.

She discusses sourcing the deals, when they entered and exited Alibaba, the differences in the opportunities in PE investing across continents, and importantly, how they approach China.

She discusses how PE has changed, why it remains a bottom-up process, the potential for high returns, and why it is an attractive business for young people to consider. Finally; she shares her two most important words: “Be Curious”!

The Money Maze Podcast is kindly sponsored by Schroders and IFM Investors

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1:01.5	Thank you.
1:04.4	Today we return to Canada, and having interviewed Ontario teachers as part of our first
1:09.7	super allocator series, we wanted
1:11.7	to explore the other immense pool of Canadian capital, CPP, the Canada Pension Plan, established
1:17.8	in 1965.
1:19.8	And in this interview, we sought out one of the most well-known and successful women in private
1:24.2	equity, someone who's also privy to be a huge role model for girls pursuing
1:28.5	careers in the investment industry.
1:31.2	Anecdotally, on attending the University of Seoul, South Korea, she was asked why she wanted
1:36.6	to pursue a degree in economics, as it had nothing to do with finding a suitable husband.
1:42.2	Suyi, how did you reply?
1:43.6	I was ready for all the questions,
1:46.4	as you can imagine, for the interview, but I wasn't ready for that. So my first reaction was,
1:53.7	why not? And then I saw the professor's face kind of freezing, and I instantly thought that,
2:00.1	oh, maybe I have made a mistake so I was very sad coming
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