LP Insight

We examine how the Los Angeles pension’s initiative to back diverse and minority-owned PE managers has performed and evolved over more than a decade.

Oper8r co-founders Winter Mead and Welly Sculley chat about their firm, which operates as an institutional fund management training program for emerging venture capital firms, and the GP-LP relationship.

Kiwi Invest CIO Simon O'Grady talks about why the pension scheme is entering the asset class and why backing a tech investor was the right choice.

Since launching its formal LP effort in 2016, Boulder, Colorado-based Foundry Group firm has backed dozens of emerging managers. These relationships have also helped the firm zero in on direct investments.

Greenspring Associates joins CalPERS and NY Common in using software developed by Lenox Park Solutions to measure diversity of fund managers and portfolio companies.

In the magazine: LPs share their views on the impact of covid-19, communications, due diligence and diversity; Latin America's VC market; And much more.

In 2016, the LP formed a dedicated early-stage venture capital fund by leveraging its existing VC program. It continues to re-up with long-term partners as it also adds one or two new GPs a year.