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Bill and Melinda Gates Investments (BMGI) is the private family investment office of Bill and Melinda Gates. BMGI manages the assets of Cascade Investments, which makes private investments for the Gates family, as well as managing the family's extensive charitable activities through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust endowment. BMGI, through Cascade, invests in a wide variety of asset classes, including global public equities, venture capital, private equity, hedge fund strategies, and investments in fund managers.

Adams Street Partners is an investment manager headquartered in Chicago with offices worldwide. We have investment funds targeting private equity, venture capital, credit, co-investment and other private markets asset classes. We invest both directly and through fund of funds strategies. In growth equity, we invest directly in rapidly growing, multi-stage, category-leading software, mobile, healthcare, security, and financial technology companies. In private credit, we invest across the entire capital structure, targeting middle-market companies with enterprise value of $150 - $750 million. We also have separate primary, secondary and co-investment fund strategies.

Fiera Capital is one of the largest independent investment management firms in Canada. We invest in equity, credit and fund of funds opportunities globally and use a number of partners with local expertise. Our core investment platforms are Fiera Properties (direct real estate investment primarily in North America), Fiera Infrastructure (mid-market and core infrastructure investments in OECD countries), Fiera Comox (direct Agriculture and Private equity investments globally) and Fiera Private lending (real estate and business lending). Fiera Capital offers a broad spectrum of investment strategies across asset classes, styles and capitalization ranges. We are one of only a handful of independent investment firms providing extensive expertise in Canadian active and structured fixed income, Canadian and foreign equity, asset allocation and non-traditional investment solutions through a broad range of strategies and services. Fiera Capital is a research-driven investment firm. We believe that disciplined, methodical analysis and the consistent application of a rigorous investment approach produce superior performance. Our active management model stresses teamwork and the free exchange of ideas among a group of highly experienced investment professionals. Fiera Capital was formed in 2003 through the acquisition of Elantis Investment Management from the Desjardins Group.

3G Capital is a global investment firm based in the United States and Brazil that primarily makes control or substantial minority investments in large, global consumer brands and retail businesses. 3G takes an active investment approach and is well known for improving profitability in its investee companies through substantial cost reductions and optimizations. 3G Capital works in close partnership with management teams at its portfolio companies and places a strong emphasis on recruiting, developing and retaining top-tier talent. 3G has partnered with Berkshire Hathaway in a number of its acquisitions - including Burger King, Kraft Foods, Heinz and Tim Hortons.

Oaktree Capital is one of the world's leading alternative investment managers. Oaktree has its original roots in high yielding and distressed credit/debt, although today invests across the spectrum from equity to debt. There are four primary strategies: credit, private equity, real assets, and listed equities. Credit comprises approximately 70% of the portfolio, with private equity and real assets comprising most of the remainder. Oaktree has a strong culture and investment philosophy focused on risk control, consistency, market inefficiency, specialisation, bottom-up analysis and disavowal of market timing.

TPG Capital is a global multi-strategy asset manager headquartered in California that invests in private equity, credit, real estate, and hedge fund strategies. TPG begun as a private equity investor before expanding into other strategies, and that remains the largest part of the business with more than $60bn under management, representing about 60% of total capital. TPG Sixth Street Partners (the Credit and Special Situations fund) manages $30bn of investments. TPG Real Estate manages $11bn in equity and debt investments. TPG Public Equity Partners manages $2bn of assets. hello ;) TPG was founded as the Texas Pacific Group in 1992 by David Bonderman, James Coulter and William Price.