In this article – “VC fund managers innovate to keep pace” – we review such factors as the three significant developments in the Canadian fund market over the last 12 months; how opportunity funds capitalize on opportunities that a fund manager may not have been able to previously pursue; how establishing a continuity fund provides flexibility to an investment manager at the end of a fund’s life; how a permanent capital fund allows a fund manager to continuously raise new capital; and the expectation that we will sée more of these strategies in the years ahead providing the markets remain active.

This article is authored by Shahir Guindi, Osler’s National Co-chair, and Chima Ubani and Ed Vandenberg, partners with Osler’s Corporate Group.

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