La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (la Caisse) and Desjardins Group announce the creation of an investment fund dedicated solely to the financial technology (FinTech) sector and to artificial intelligence applied to finance.

La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a long-term institutional investor, and CKD Infraestructura México (CKD IM), a consortium of Mexican institutional investors, announced today the acquisition of 80% of a portfolio of eight wind and solar assets owned by Enel Green Power (Enel), a global leader in renewable energy.

Novacap and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec announced today an investment in Pivotal Payments (Pivotal), a Québec business that specializes in payment processing solutions and merchant services.

CGI Group Inc. (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB) announced today that it intends to enter into a private agreement with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (“la Caisse”) for the repurchase for cancellation of 4,854,368 of its Class A subordinate voting shares (“Class A Shares”) held by la Caisse for a price of $61.80 per Class A Share, which represents a discount to today’s closing price of the Class A Shares on the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”).

Today, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) announced that it has provided a total of USD 113 million of loans to Carestream Dental, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of imaging systems and practice management software for general and specialist dental offices globally.

NAMAKOR Holdings, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the Québec Manufacturing Fund announced today the acquisition of Gelpac Inc., a Québec manufacturer specialized in packaging solutions for industrial products and consumer goods.

Today, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec presented an update of its performance as at June 30, 2017. Over five years, the weighted average annual return on clients’ funds reached 10.6%, representing net investment results of $107.9 billion, bringing la Caisse’s net assets to $286.5 billion. Compared to its benchmark portfolio, the investment strategies of la Caisse generated $13.5 billion of value added. For the first six months of 2017, the average return on clients’ funds was 5.0%, generating close to $800 million of value added.

Astorg and Montagu, two leading pan-European private equity investors, today announced that they have entered into a binding agreement with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), a leading Canadian institutional asset manager, for the sale of a significant minority stake in Sebia.

Boralex Inc. (“Boralex” or the “Company”) (TSX: BLX) announced today that Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (“la Caisse”) has acquired all of the Class A common shares of Boralex held by Cascades Inc. representing 17.3% of the outstanding shares for the amount of $287.5 million.

Novacap, one of Canada’s leading private equity firms, today announced it has closed its latest private equity fund, NOVACAP TMT V (the ‘’Fund’’), at its hard cap with total commitments of $840 million.