The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Encino Energy are acquiring Chesapeake Energy Corp.’s Utica shale oil and gas assets in Ohio for $2.6 billion. Through the jointly-formed Encino Acquisition Partners, an organization formed in 2017 to seek out significant, high-margin oil and gas production and development assets in the U.S., the transaction includes more than 900,000 net acres of leasehold with […]
La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is teaming up with global investment manager AMP Capital Investors Ltd. to provide more than $657 million in financing to U.S. developer Tillman Infrastructure. The investment will help finance the building of new telecommunications towers across the U.S., providing new ground for carriers to cover, as well as boosting […]
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is expanding its partnership with Longfor Group Holdings Ltd. to launch a new investment co-operation focused on rental housing programs in China. The duo are targeting an initial investment of about $1 billion in two Chinese cities through developments, acquisition and master-lease of commercial assets that will be converted to rental housing. […]
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is acquiring a stake in Swiss sports data firm Sportradar. The CPPIB is making the acquisition, from Swiss private equity firm EQT Partners and other minor stakeholders, alongside growth equity firm TCV. The stake is valued at about $3.1 billion. “The sports data market, particularly real-time data, is a compelling long-term investment […]
CIBC Mellon has appointed former Canada Pension Plan Investment Board managing director Karen Rowe as its new chief financial officer. At the CPPIB, Rowe was managing director and head of investment finance and led a team responsible for aspects of the organization’s global private investment portfolio, including finance, valuation and operations. In her new role […]
CPPIB issuing green bonds, investing in Chinese tech company.
The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) was designed in 1965 to replace 25 per cent of a person’s pensionable earnings in retirement, a figure that still holds true today. Enrolment is mandatory, with contributions made by both employees and employers, as well as self-employed workers. The program has evolved over time and receives mixed reviews in […]
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 Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is issuing green bonds with an aim to boost its holdings in renewable energy and efficient buildings. Over the past year, the pension fund has indicated its intention to put more than $3 billion into the renewable energy sector to ensure it’s ready for the anticipated transition to a lower-carbon economy on […]
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