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Borealis Infrastructure is a pioneer and a recognized world leader in infrastructure investing. Established in the late 1990s, we were the first group formed by a Canadian pension plan with a mandate to invest in infrastructure as a separate asset class. Today, we have approximately C$7 billion invested in approximately 20+ investments that have a total enterprise value of approximately C$40 billion. Borealis acts as the infrastructure investment arm of OMERS, a Canadian pension plan with approximately C$50 billion in net investment assets.1
We employ a direct drive, active management strategy in making and managing infrastructure investments. Our sponsorship by OMERS, as a large pension plan with significant capital, enables Borealis to be a true long-term, buy-and-hold investor. To date, Borealis has not sought to dispose of any of its infrastructure investments.
Borealis targets investments in large-scale, world-class infrastructure opportunities with enterprise values in excess of $1 billion. We typically seek to acquire meaningful stakes in infrastructure assets to enable our active management strategy. In large transactions, we partner with like-minded investors and/or strong operating partners.
We make and manage investments in traditional infrastructure sectors exhibiting significant governmental or regulatory barriers to entry as well as industry sectors and businesses exhibiting strong, stable cash flows linked to inflation or underpinned by long-term contracts. Examples of such sectors include:
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energy (generation, transmission and distribution networks) |
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transportation (transportation gateways, rail corridors, ports and airports) |
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institutional facilities (hospitals, long-term care facilities and schools) |
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government-regulated services (laboratory diagnostic services, satellite and other communications networks and land registry services) |
1 As at December 31, 2009.
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