Teachers’ is an Industry Leader
	Innovation is the key to our success. What makes Teachers’ different and how have we led the way for innovative investment management? • We won the $51.7 billion bid for BCE - the largest leveraged buyout in the world. Read more >> • We bought sports teams – 58% owners of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Raptors and Toronto Football Club. Read more >> • We are the largest Canadian investor in global infrastructure. • We own one-third of the regulated water market in Chile and have significant interests in the electricity sector. • We were the lead investor in largest-ever Brazilian IPO (OGX Petroleo e Gas, 2008). • We’ve invested heavily in hedge funds – $9.9 billion portfolio. • We make private capital investments directly instead of using funds. • We opened offices in London and New York - our first outside Canada - for enhanced access to European and international investment opportunities. • We financed two of Canada’s largest-ever buyouts with New York buyout specialist, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts – $3 billion for Yellow Pages and $2.5 billion for Shoppers Drug Mart. Read more >> • We are a founding equity partner in WestJet, Canada’s leading discount airline. • Predicting rising global energy demands, we made big investments in energy, buying most of Canada’s coal reserves in 2000 and 2001. Read more >> • We built a real estate portfolio of $16.4 billion which is managed by our wholly owned subsidiary, Cadillac Fairview. • We diversified the fund in the early 1990s by investing billions in derivatives markets. • We consolidated the industry to create the second-largest coal exporter in the world with Sherritt International (Fording Canadian Coal Trust, 2003) • We introduced internally managed hedge fund strategies, including long/shorts equities programs. • We earned a AAA credit rating to provide a corporate guarantee for real estate debt. Read more >>

	Posted August 2008	TOP