CPPIB To Buy U.S. Commercial Properties

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s CEO, David Denison, is seeking to buy commercial real-estate properties in U.S. in 2011.

Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPPIB) CEO, David Denison, is seeking to buy commercial real-estate properties in U.S. in 2011, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Canadian fund completed a $3.4 billion acquisition of Australian toll-road operator, Intoll, at the end of last year.

The fund also invested $93 million in two office buildings in Washington, DC, and $69 million for a shopping center near Cologne, Germany. CPPIB oversees $140 billion in assets for Canada’s national pension plan.

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