Insights and Stories on CPPIB

Canada’s CPPIB to buy major U.S. port terminal operator

Sep. 29, 2021 at 4:16 pm CDT

Reuters — Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy Ports America, one of the largest marine terminal operators in the U.S., from investment firm Oaktree Capital Management. While no valuation was given in the announcement, the deal values Ports America at over US$4 […]

Glencore looking to expand agriculture business, CEO says

May. 24, 2017 at 12:40 pm CDT

By barbara-lewis

Viterra books lower first-half revenues for Glencore

Aug. 24, 2016 at 9:43 pm CDT

By Staff

B.C. pension funds to get piece of Glencore ag unit

Jun. 9, 2016 at 3:59 am CDT

By Staff

Glencore in talks to sell further stake in ag unit

May. 6, 2016 at 12:27 pm CDT

By Clara Denina Sarah McFarlane

China may pay more for canola if standard changes

Apr. 7, 2016 at 4:57 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Richardson International, one of Canada’s two largest grain handlers, may raise the price of canola shipments to China to reflect Beijing’s costly higher standard, its CEO said Thursday. The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa said in March that China had delayed to Sept. 1 its new standard for […]

By Rod Nickel

Glencore sells 40 per cent of agribusiness to CPP

Apr. 6, 2016 at 11:29 am CDT

London | Reuters –– Commodity miner and trader Glencore has agreed to sell 40 per cent of its agricultural unit to Canada’s state pension fund for US$2.5 billion, the company’s latest step to cut debt and soothe investor concerns about the impact of weak commodity prices. The sale values the […]

By Dmitry Zhdannikov

CPP reported in talks for stake in Glencore agribusiness

Apr. 5, 2016 at 2:22 pm CDT

Reuters — Commodity trading and mining firm Glencore is in advanced talks to sell a stake in its agricultural business to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The CPPIB would take a stake of up to 40 per […]

By Reuters

Saskatchewan farmland off limits for pension plans next month

Dec. 21, 2015 at 6:14 pm CST

Reuters/Staff — New rules for buying farmland in Saskatchewan, Canada’s biggest wheat- and canola-growing province, will take effect Jan. 4, and toughen its ban on pension plans investing, the provincial government said Monday. The changes make more explicit an existing ban on pension plans and trusts from buying land and […]