Carney’s investment summit attracted ‘all the right people.’ Will it bear fruit?

A handful of the world’s top investors made the same confession to John Graham at the Canada Investment Summit.

Mr. Graham is chief executive officer of the country’s largest pension fund, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a household name in global finance with $864-billion to invest. And he had a prominent role, as a co-organizer of the summit, in playing host to the world’s top money managers for two days in Toronto this past week.

In private conversations, major global investment leaders praised the event to him and then, in the same breath, shared that “this is the very first time they have stepped foot in Canada,” Mr. Graham said in an interview.

John Graham, president and CEO of CPP Investments, was a co-organizer of the Canada Investment Summit. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail