Maple Eight
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Sep 18, 2026
Vas BednarGUEST
around that assetization, around seeing housing, water, electricity, airports as something that should be invested in and shifted.
Vas BednarGUEST
So if I can just quote RuPaul for a second, if you don't love yourself, how the hell are you gonna love somebody else? I think that's really the ethos that has brought forward, like we're courting all this outside capital, and we definitely need to demonstrate that our domestic capital is willing to be deployed here just a little bit more often, which is why I come back to sort of pushing the Maple 8 a little bit more to think beyond those.
Vas BednarGUEST
Again, I know that fiduciary duty, but when I look at Quebec's, at the CASA's returns, they're not bad and they have that dual mandate.
Vas BednarGUEST
So, I mean, they're no worse than any other pension fund.
Sadek WahbaGUEST
But there's no particular reason.
Michael SidgmoreHOST
All of these things we're discussing are about private capital, whether it's the Wealth Channel or 401ks or pensions, as you said, Australia, the Maple 8.
Michael SidgmoreHOST
Some European pension plans have done a great job of investing in infrastructure assets, maybe even owning and managing them in some cases.
Michael SidgmoreHOST
Going forward, how much of a role do you think private sector will have to play or private investment will have to play in infrastructure given, one, how much debt governments have, and two, just this element of There's also this intertwined element of a bit of deglobalization, countries also thinking they need to invest in infrastructure for national security reasons in some cases.
Peter LieuGUEST
We haven't used secondaries as much as the rest of the market.
Peter LieuGUEST
We think the important aspect of getting access is really constructing an institutional quality strategy, very similar to what the Maple 8 does.
Peter LieuGUEST
have been doing.
Peter LieuGUEST
Our program is 50% in funds that give us diversification across portfolio companies, geography, sectors, and importantly, vintage year diversification.
Peter LieuGUEST
So it's a very staggered approach to how we build up our portfolio.
Peter LieuGUEST
And then the second half of our investment program is in investing in companies.
Peter LieuGUEST
We co-invest with our partners, very similar to the Maple 8, and we do the occasional direct investing in Canada where that's kind of home base for us.
Kevin MinasGUEST
On the co-investments, that's a really important piece of the program.
Peter LieuGUEST
We haven't used secondaries as much as the rest of the market.
Peter LieuGUEST
We think the important aspect of getting access is really constructing an institutional quality strategy, very similar to what the Maple 8 does.
Peter LieuGUEST
have been doing.
Peter LieuGUEST
Our program is 50% in funds that give us diversification across portfolio companies, geography, sectors, and importantly, vintage year diversification.
Peter LieuGUEST
So it's a very staggered approach to how we build up our portfolio.
Peter LieuGUEST
And then the second half of our investment program is in investing in companies.
Peter LieuGUEST
We co-invest with our partners, very similar to the Maple 8, and we do the occasional direct investing in Canada where that's kind of home base for us.
Kevin MinasGUEST
On the co-investments, that's a really important piece of the program.
Sadek WahbaGUEST
But there's no particular reason.
Michael SidgmoreHOST
All of these things we're discussing are about private capital, whether it's the Wealth Channel or 401ks or pensions, as you said, Australia, the Maple Eight, some European pension plans have done a great job of investing in infrastructure assets, maybe even owning and managing them in some cases.
Michael SidgmoreHOST
Going forward, how much of a role do you think private sector will have to play or private investment will have to play in infrastructure given how much, one, how much debt governments have, and two, just this element of There's also this intertwined element of a bit of deglobalization.
Michael SidgmoreHOST
Countries also thinking they need to invest in infrastructure for national security reasons in some cases.
Stephen HarperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
You hear the pause there, so he's mentally shifting gears.
Stephen HarperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I know that at AIMCO we are rightly known as one of the Maple Eight, but dare I say that we are also the Wild Rose One.
Stephen HarperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That is the sole major fund based in the province of Alberta.
Stephen HarperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So allow me to speak a bit from that perspective.
Andrew WillisGUEST
He made no bones about the fact that he is the chairman of AIMCO, that they are major investors in Alberta.
Andrew WillisGUEST
And he said, you know, you guys talk about the Maple 8 pension plans, which is the big pension plans.
Andrew WillisGUEST
We are the Wild Rose 1 pension plan.
Andrew WillisGUEST
AIMCO is a champion of capital markets in Alberta.
Andrew CoyneGUEST
He made no bones about the fact that he is the chairman of AIMCO, that they are major investors in Alberta.
Andrew CoyneGUEST
And he said, you know, you guys talk about the Maple 8 pension plans, which is the big pension plans.
Andrew CoyneGUEST
We are the wild rose one pension plan.
Andrew CoyneGUEST
AIMCO is a champion of capital markets in Alberta.
Arshy MannHOST
Instead, this is a proposal that works for the benefit of major asset managers and pension funds.
Arshy MannHOST
Last year, the Maple Eight, a colloquial term for Canada's eight largest pension fund managers, was begging the government to privatize as many publicly owned assets as it could so that they could have a piece of them.
Arshy MannHOST
These giant pools of money are on a desperate search for increased returns wherever they can be found.
Arshy MannHOST
And vital infrastructure is a great place for them to do it because they know that they can gouge consumers with no consequences.
Stephen HarperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, I'm gonna keep my comments brief, so I wanna focus on one thing.
Stephen HarperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I know that at AIMCo we are rightly known as one of the Maple Eight, but dare I say that we are also the Wild Rose One.
Stephen HarperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That is the sole major fund based in the province of Alberta.
Stephen HarperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So allow me to speak a bit from that perspective, particularly from the perspective from Alberta's position as the center of the country's energy industry.
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