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The Daily Brief

February 08, 2012

Hello Melbourne. Nice to be here! I come bearing news:

Alberta's Heritage Fund and AIMCo are set to grow: "...Premier Redford is taking concrete steps to address the issue of growing the Heritage Fund again...Norway’s fund was started after Alberta’s on similar revenues and similar oil flows.”
CalSTRS is moving into infrastructure: It's made a $500 million allocation to IFM and has plans to invest on a direct basis.
CIC has invested $150 million in another Canadian oil sands project.
This National Pension Service co-investment vehicle is quite interesting: It has apparently agreed to finance global acquisitions for 12 Korean firms.
The conundrum of Lebanon’s hypothetical hydrocarbons (and notional SWF).
PM Stephen Harper: “Canadian investors ought to be afforded the same access to China that Chinese investors are afforded.” True dat.
The Norwegian company, Yara, hopes to salvage its joint-venture with the Libyan Investment Authority.
Pascal Duhamel is ADIA's new real estate head.

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