Pension Pulse

Freschia Gonzales of Wealth Professional reports pension fund to invest another $10 billion in Canada by 2027: Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board will put an additional $10bn into Canadian public and private investments by the end of 2027, targeting opportunities that meet its existing return objectives.  Canada already accounts for approximately $100bn of the plan's gross assets, or about 30 percent of the total portfolio, according to the announcement.   Ontario Teachers' described Canada as its home market and said its domestic holdings span multiple sectors, naming Arterra Wines, Cadillac Fairview, Canada Guaranty, Enwave, Fairstone Bank, GFL, Global Container Terminals, Heritage Royalty, HomeEquity Bank, and StackAdapt among them.  Jo Taylor, president and CEO of Ontario Teachers', said in the plan's statement that about one-third of the fund's portfolio sits in Canada today.   The pla...

Barbara Shecter of the National Post reports  PSP aims to boost Canadian investments by at least 30 per cent in the coming years, CEO says: One of Canada’s largest pension funds expects to boost investments in Canada by 30 per cent to 40 per cent over the next few years, bringing its total assets invested at home above the $100 billion level. The Public Sector Pension Investment Board’s target stems from a more uncertain global landscape alongside new opportunities at home, said Deb Orida, chief executive of PSP, which has $320.6 billion under management and is a co-host of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s global summit, which will bring together top investors from more than two dozen countries across Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East in Toronto next week. “We’ve been looking for opportunities to leverage our home ice advantage,” she said, adding that the fund already boosted Canadian investments by $10 billion in its most recent fiscal year through a combination of direct priva...

Sean Silcoff of The Globe and Mail reports La Caisse and B.C. billionaire Ryan beedie partner up to buy and develop industrial property across Canada:  One of Western Canada’s top property developers, Ryan Beedie, is teaming up with the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec to buy and develop industrial real estate nationally. His company, Burnaby, B.C.-based Beedie Holdings Ltd., has sold a half-share in six warehouses and distribution centres to the pension management giant for $500-million. The portfolio includes four Vancouver-area properties, one in Calgary and another under construction in Toronto. Together, they total 2.7 million square feet of leasable space and include facilities used by Sobeys, Aritzia and Amazon. Beedie will manage the properties . The partners have also agreed to buy or build up to $2-billion of additional industrial properties in large cities in Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia. The Caisse has committed $500-million for that expansion. B...

Steve Randall of Wealth Professional reports  Canada leads global investor confidence, but scale gap remains: CPP report: Global investors trust Canada. The harder task is giving them enough to buy.  That is the central finding of two complementary reports published September 8, 2026 by the CPP Investments Insights Institute, the research arm of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) in Toronto. The reports - Competing for Capital: How Global Investors Choose Markets and Trusted, But Untapped: Canada's Next Competitive Advantage Is Investibility - draw on interviews with 65 senior investment professionals across 20 countries, collectively overseeing approximately $65 trillion in assets under management, or roughly one-third of estimated global AUM. The research was published in the lead-up to the Canada Investment Summit, scheduled for September 14 and 15, 2026 in Toronto, where global instit...

The Business Desk reports the UK’s largest private crematorium and cemetery firm sold in a private equity deal: Westerleigh Group, the UK’s biggest private crematorium and cemetery operator, is being acquired by global alternative asset manager ICG for an undisclosed sum. ICG’s European Infrastructure team will buy the business, based at Westerleigh, near Bristol, from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Universities Superannuation Scheme, which have jointly owned it since 2016. The company operates 42 crematoria across England, Scotland and Wales and describes itself as the UK’s largest developer of new crematoria, having opened 21 sites since 2016. Debbie Smith, chief executive of Westerleigh Group, said the firm’s priority had always been to provide exceptional care to the families and communities it served. “ICG Infra shares our commitment to investing in our people, facilities and services, and brings a long-term perspective that aligns closely with our ambitions,” she add...