CPPIB expects India investments to grow multiple times, says APAC chief Suyi Kim

For Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), which manages one of the largest pension fund corpus globally, India is emerging as an important investment destination. CPPIB, which began investing in India in 2009, and set up its first office in 2014, currently has a total India portfolio of about C$7 billion. In an interaction with Mint, Suyi Kim, senior managing director and head of Asia Pacific at CPPIB, talks about new areas of investment that the fund is exploring such as new economy internet companies and sovereign debt, the good and bad of the India opportunity and about India’s significance in the world of CPPIB.