Investor Updates
Canada Pension Funds Invest in Australia
29 January 2013
One of Canada’s largest pension funds, the $120 billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, is reported to be looking into increasing its investments in Australia by $250 million on top of the $1 billion it already has invested in the country.
In recent years, both Canadian and US pension funds have been increasing their investments in Australian infrastructure.
Stephen Dowd, Senior Vice-President in charge of global infrastructure for the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan said that Australia was a ‘really great market to invest in’.
‘Australia is open to foreign direct investment,’ Mr Dowd said. ‘There is a well-established regulatory regime, a very open business environment, and a fundamentally healthy economy.’
Mr Dowd said the pension fund was interested in stable, cash flow-generating assets. He said that as a global investor, the fund looked at markets across the world. ‘We do find Australia is one of the attractive ones,’ he added.
Canada’s largest pension fund, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, with funds of $170 billion, last year agreed to invest $1 billion in the Barangaroo development project in Sydney.
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