Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s effort to charm a cadre of the world\u2019s largest investors at a VIP-only summit in Toronto last week is paying quick dividends for Canadian investments.<\/p>\n
With a stock market trading at a discount to its U.S. rival, an improving growth outlook and Carney\u2019s promises of tax cuts, fiscal policy certainty and regulatory rollbacks, multiple fund managers say they are boosting their equity allocations in Canada. In addition, the country\u2019s bigger-than-expected list of 167 major industrial and infrastructure projects has unearthed new investing ideas as Carney seeks 1 trillion Canadian dollars ($715 billion) of investment in the nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrime Minister Carney said, \u2018high standards don\u2019t require slow decisions,\u2019 and that\u2019s really the mindset that he\u2019s in,\u201d said Mathieu Chabran, co-founder of French alternative asset manager Tikehau Capital SCA, who noted that Canada has become an important market for the firm, which specializes in private market investments. \u201cI have the impression that he\u2019s positioning his administration to be resource driven and get things done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Carney\u2019s effort to charm a cadre of the world\u2019s largest investors at a VIP-only summit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":903627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2659,44],"class_list":["post-903626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mark-carney","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903626","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=903626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}