OMERS Working on C$10 Billion U.S. Energy Purchase, Chief Says
Date: October 28, 2008
Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System is working with other investors on the purchase of a U.S. energy company worth more than C$10 billion ($8.6 billion), Chief Executive Officer Michael Nobrega said.
“We have a pending deal in the U.S. energy sector, which we haven’t announced yet,” Nobrega said today in a telephone interview from London. “Our plan is to close this year, but sometimes things don’t work according to plan.”
Nobrega declined to name the target or the partners, saying only the company has an enterprise value of more than C$10 billion, including debt.
Omers, as the Toronto-based fund is called, wants to increase its investments in private equity, infrastructure and real estate to 42.5 percent of net assets within five years — from about 30 percent now — because it expects these assets to outperform publicly traded stocks and bonds. The fund manages more than C$52 billion for municipal employees and governments in Canada’s most populous province.
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