2023-11-10 21:27:02
“Green and collective transportation represents a central theme for us in Europe,” declares Emmanuel Jaclot, head of infrastructure at the Caisse des Dépôts et Placement du Québec (here on December 15, 2022, in Paris). Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg
The Canadian manager is interested in the Old Continent and France, where he manages 22 billion in assets.
The Duo towers in eastern Paris. Transport operators Keolis and Eurostar. The energy producer Boralex. What do all these very different assets or companies have in common? They are all, at least in part, owned by the Caisse des Dépôts et Placement du Québec (CDPQ). It is a real institution in La Belle Province. The Caisse manages the money of around fifty depositors, who then pay their pensions to Quebec retirees. And an asset management juggernaut, with nearly 300 billion euros under management in the stock market, bonds, private equity, real estate and infrastructure. For a long time, its investments took place almost exclusively in Canada and North America. Today, a third are in the rest of the world, half of which are in Europe. And France plays a significant part in this, with nearly 22 billion euros.
The infrastructure and real estate teams, under the Ivanhoé Cambridge brand for the latter, are…
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