La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, one of the world’s largest institutional investment management firms, with C$240 billion in assets, may still not be well known outside of its native Quebec. But the fund is a savvy global investor with many of those assets (C$150 billion) invested outside of Canada.
The CDPQ is looking at how best to increase revenue and pension assets for its clients now that it must go beyond the traditional fixed income and bonds it may have considered 10 or 20 years ago.