While an investment bank that provides advisory services to the federal government has approached the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board about the Trans Mountain pipeline, the fund hasn’t faced political pressure to invest in it, the CPPIB’s chief executive officer told a House of Commons committee on Monday. Speaking before the finance committee on Monday, […]
The recent Trans Mountain pipeline transaction has highlighted the often polarizing discussion around infrastructure projects, raising questions such as who should own them, how much they should cost and how to balance various competing interests. Infrastructure is often defined as permanent assets a society requires to facilitate the orderly operation of an economy. They tend […]
Just days before Canada hosts the G7 Summit in La Malbaie, Que., a group of investors, including some of the country’s largest pension funds, has joined together with the federal government to promote three key issues, including increasing opportunities for women in finance and investment worldwide. “We need to think about how we’re going to ensure half of […]
While the integration of environmental, social and governance factors is becoming more prevalent in discussions about institutional investing, there’s more work to do when it comes to alternative investments. “Private equity is all about value creation,” said Martha Tredgett, Canadian representative for LGT Capital Partners Ltd., during an event hosted by the Canadian chapter of […]
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan are part of a consortium of investors acquiring global energy service provider Techem GmbH. Joined by private equity firm Partners Group and Techem’s management team, the consortium is buying the Germany-based company from Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 2, which acquired it in […]
OMFIF reveals the 2017 trend toward alternatives and sustainable investing.
The Canada Infrastructure Bank has found its inaugural chief executive officer in Pierre Lavallée, a former senior executive at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. “With an exceptional combination of investment and public-sector expertise, Pierre is well placed to set the strategic course and direction of Canada Infrastructure Bank and develop a high-performing management team,” […]
Global institutional investors’ assets under management rose 7.3 per cent in 2017 to US$36.2 trillion, the largest increase in five years, according to the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. The London, England, and Singapore-based independent think-tank’s report tracks 750 global public pension, sovereign funds and central banks, holding assets equivalent to 45 per cent of the […]
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is among the anchor investors in India’s first private infrastructure investment trust. Sponsored by L&T Infrastructure Development Projects Ltd., the CPPIB and Allianz Capital Partners will take a combined 55 per cent stake in the IndInfravit trust. The trust will focus on developing toll roads and other road infrastructure. It will initially […]
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has appointed Dale Burgess as senior managing director of infrastructure and natural resources. Burgess has been serving as interim head of infrastructure and natural resources since February and will assume the permanent role immediately. Read: Ontario Teachers’ appoints new Asia-Pacific regional investment head In the new role, Burgess will oversee the […]