Canadian pension fund CDPQ eyes infrastructure opportunities as it looks to invest C$15b in Apac over 5 years

CANADIAN pension fund Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) is seeing opportunities in infrastructure and real estate in Asia-Pacific, and expects such assets to form the bulk of its investments in the region in the coming years.

The institutional investor – which manages some C$392 billion (S$412 billion) in assets globally – expects to deploy around C$15 billion of additional investment into the region over the next 5 years, chief executive Charles Emond told The Business Times in an interview in Singapore this week.

This builds upon the C$56 billion in assets that CDPQ currently has in the region, an amount nearly double the exposure from 5 years ago and 4 times that from a decade back.