The event Monday and Tuesday will mark the biggest test yet of a project to reframe the way global investors see Canada. The pitch is that the country has an increasingly competitive business environment, a pipeline of investable major projects and middle-market deals and deserves investors’ attention not just as the junior part of a North American market, but on its own terms.
It’s one thing to get CEOs to attend a summit. It’s another for Mr. Carney and Canadian corporate leaders to convince them to invest huge amounts of capital.
“It’s a choice opportunity, when you’re getting this type of a group together, to hear directly from the people at the helm about what’s happening and what’s going to change,” David Layton, CEO of US$186-billion Swiss asset manager Partners Group AG and a summit guest, said in an interview.
“You have a lot of business people coming and they want to talk business. They want to understand what the business environment is going to be like there, so it’s an opportunity to set those expectations.”
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