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Maturity
PIP's portfolio contains a wide range of fund vintages (referring to the year the fund was established), as shown in the chart below. Private equity funds typically take up to 5 years of a fund's life to invest the majority of their available capital into underlying companies. Therefore, significant flows of realised proceeds tend not be returned to investors until the middle and later stages of a fund's life.

Maturity pie-chart
As at 31 December 2007