{"id":896961,"date":"2026-09-15T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896961\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T19:10:11","slug":"cpp-investments-and-brookfield-to-invest-in-big-canadian-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896961\/","title":{"rendered":"CPP Investments and Brookfield to invest in big Canadian projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/stock\/BAM:QH\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bnnbloomberg.ca\/stock\/BAM:QH\/\">Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.<\/a> have announced a new $50-billion fund aimed at backing critical infrastructure and strategic industry projects across Canada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The so-called Maple Fund will see the two organizations invest on a 50-50 basis, with each committing up to $25 billion in equity over an initial five-year period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fund is one of the marquee announcements to emerge at a new investment summit in Toronto hosted by Prime Minister Mark Carney in partnership with CPP Investments and PSP Investments, two of Canada\u2019s largest pension investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CPP Investments chief executive John Graham said Canada is entering a period of new ambition to advance major projects and build for the future, creating compelling investment opportunities across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cCPP Investments has the capital, long-term investment horizon and expertise to pursue these opportunities,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThe Maple Fund brings together our strengths with Brookfield\u2019s strong origination and development capabilities to help move ambitious projects from opportunity to investment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Graham added: \u201cThe Maple Fund positions us well to meet this moment and move with speed on opportunities of unusual scale and complexity when they offer compelling value for the CPP Fund.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Connor Teskey, CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, said the fund brings together two companies with a shared commitment to investing in the country\u2019s future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Fund \u201ccan help drive a generational investment program to invest in critical infrastructure, industries and businesses that will support the growth of globally competitive Canadian businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The inaugural Canada Investment Summit is a two-day gathering of global investors, Canadian business leaders and governments that seeks to help attract $1 trillion in new investment to Canada over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The country\u2019s big banks have also announced plans for billions in financing to support Canadian companies and projects in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 15, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. have announced a new $50-billion fund&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,46,133],"class_list":["post-896961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}