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Hi and welcome to the Longview. I'm Ben Johnson, head of client solutions with Morningstar.

And I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morning Star.

Today's guest on The Longview is Hillary Wick. Hillary is a principal analyst at Pitchbook, where

she leads Pitchbook's coverage of fund strategies and performance, publishing primary research

on the alternative space. Hillary also leads Pitchbook's coverage of the ESG and impact investing

space. Hillary has over 20 years of experience in asset owner, manager, and advisory

roles. Prior to joining Pitchbook, she was the director of investments at the St. Paul and Minnesota

Foundations, where she handled portfolio management, impact and ESG investment, investment due

diligence, and monitoring and investment operations. Before that, she worked

in senior positions at Siegel Rogers Casey, the South Carolina Retirement Systems Investment Commission,

Buckingham Financial Group, Dayton Power and Light, and Key Corp. Wigg received a master's degree in

finance and economics from Case Western Reserve University and

a bachelor's degree in business leadership and finance from the University of Puget Sound. She is

based in Pitchbook's Seattle office. Pitchbook is a Morningstar company. Well, Hillary, welcome to the

Longview. Thanks so much. Yeah, I appreciate being invited.

We're hoping you might be able to share with us to begin a little bit about your journey

into private markets research and your current role at Pitchbook. Yeah, absolutely. It's a little

long in Sir Kyoto's. I joined the investment world in

1992, so I've been through and seen a lot, but from a lot of different vantage points.

I first figured out private equity existed. I would say in 99 when I joined a public utility

of all places that had a billion dollar private equity portfolio. And so that's,

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