La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CPDQ, por sus siglas en francés), fondo inversionista institucional a largo plazo, anunció su apoyo a la compañía eléctrica con sede en Colombia Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) con un préstamo de USD250 millones (CAD313 millones).

Michael Sabia, President and Chief Executive Officer, shared his views on the coming year’s global economic issues, particularly on what to expect from the Canadian economy, as part of a panel organized by Reuters Breakingviews in Toronto.

La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec ("CPDQ") and the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), two of Canada’s largest pension investment managers, today announced a joint investment in Fives, a global industrial engineering group headquartered in France, which designs and supplies engineered machines, process equipment and production lines for the world’s largest industrial players.

Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec announces the closing of $150 million in financing to La Capitale Financial Group, a large Québec insurance mutual.

Groupe Solmax, a Canadian-based company and an industry leader in the production of high-quality polyethylene geomembranes for industrial and environmental applications has acquired GSE Environmental based in Houston, Texas from Littlejohn & Co., LLC and certain funds and accounts managed by Strategic Value Partners, LLC, both Greenwich, Connecticut-based private investment firms.

Caisse de depôt et placement du Québec (la Caisse) announced today a $2.5 million equity investment, through the Fonds Espace CDPQ, in Québec’s Glutenberg Holding Co., a producer and distributor of craft beers and spirits.

La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec ( “la Caisse”) announced today an investment in Innocap Investment Management Inc. (“Innocap”), a Montréal-based firm offering managed account solutions. The investment is made through the purchase of share capital and the issuance of a loan.

Hyperion Insurance Group today announced that Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), the long-term institutional investor, has agreed to acquire a significant minority stake in the Group.

CDPQ Infra, a subsidiary of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, announced today its decision to keep its tender process for the Réseau électrique métropolitain (REM) open and launch a period of intensive discussions with the qualified consortiums for the engineering and construction contract. 

Global leadership in artificial intelligence, recognition of an expanding pool of top talent and bold ideas, combined with a strong geopolitical outlook, indicate that the moment is ripe for Canada to take its place as a tech leader on the international stage. Building on this momentum and coinciding with the tenth anniversary of Real Ventures’ first $3 million seed fund in 2007, the country’s leading early-stage venture capital firm has raised two new pools of capital totalling $180 million to broaden and deepen support for the most promising Canadian tech startups and entrepreneurial ecosystems. This brings Real’s total funds under management to over $330 million.