Like certain other Canadian funds, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is accelerating its regional buildout. It is focusing on adding talent in equities and real assets in Singapore.
Institutional investors such as the UK’s Coal Pension Trustees and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan are taking different routes to increasing their use of emerging technologies.
The Canadian pension fund is likely to locate its next Asian branch in the south of the region alongside plans to put its first real asset capabilities on the ground.
Neither Ontario Teachers nor the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan own property in Asia, but that could change as they eye new asset classes in the region.
Conflicts of interest and strains are seen to be growing as more asset owners in Asia eye co-investments and direct deals. Regulators are watching the situation closely.
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The $128 billion Canadian retirement fund is likely to put a presence in Brazil, after it recently set up in Hong Kong. But it is wary of emerging-market debt.