The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec’s real estate arm is acquiring two parcels of land in Ontario, California. Ivanhoé Cambridge intends to develop the land, at a cost of more than $587 million, into Colony Commerce Center, which will consist of 11 industrial buildings, about 280,000 square metres of leasable space. Read: CPPIB […]
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System’s infrastructure arm is taking on a 50 per cent stake in the BridgeTex Pipeline Co. for $1.438 billion. With the purchase, OMERS will be the largest shareholder of the company, which owns the BridgeTex pipeline and transports crude oil from Colorado City, Texas to refineries in Houston. “OMERS’ investment in BridgeTex is consistent with […]
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RBC Global Asset Management Inc. has appointed Michael Kitt as head of real estate equity investments at RBC Global Asset Management. Kitt will be leading efforts in developing Canadian real estate pooled solutions, initially as an offering for the domestic institutional investor market, with the aim of expanding both vehicle type and targeted client groups over time. The appointment is RBC GAM’s […]
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is partnering with a subsidiary of ESR, a pan-Asian logistics real estate platform, to invest about $653 million in Korean logistics facilities. Within the investment vehicle, which will focus on building a portfolio of premier facilities in strategic areas, Seoul-based Kendall Square Asset Management will identify new assets for acquisition. In a news release, […]
Real estate is more than a passing trend for global institutional investors, as evidenced by the growing number of allocations to the asset class of US$1 billion or more. The number of investors joining the billion-dollar club grew from 442 in 2017 to 499 this year, according to a new survey by data and intelligence company Preqin Ltd. Public […]
Canadian defined benefit pension plans experienced a modest second quarter, according to separate reports by BNY Mellon Asset Management Canada Ltd. and RBC Investor and Treasury Services. The plans in BNY Mellon’s Canadian pension fund-level benchmark posted its ninth straight positive result with a 2.16 per cent increase for the quarter. It found that plans […]
The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec posted a 3.3 per cent average return for the first half of 2018, adding $9.8 billion since the end of 2017 and bringing its net assets to $308.3 billion as of June 30, 2018. “The market environment became more complex in the first half of the year,” said Michael Sabia, […]
The British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is reporting a nine per cent return for the fiscal year ending Mar. 31, 2018, a slight drop from its 12.4 per cent return in the previous year. The return generated $1.9 billion in added value, bringing the organization’s assets under management to $145.6 billion. It also increased its internally managed assets to […]
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is providing more than $481 million of seed lending to Australian-based Challenger Investment Partners Ltd., a global fixed income and real estate manger. The funding it set to go to middle-market real estate loans in Australia and New Zealand, which Challenger will source and manage. “This partnership marks our first real estate […]