Quebec Ink

How the Caisse is riding out Quebec’s grey wave

MONTREAL — At some point in 2025, a Quebecer will retire and become one of the roughly 95,000 to claim pension benefits each year. This humdrum event will trigger an unprecedented change for the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, the body charged with investing the collective bounty of more than six million people. In 2025, for the first time in what will be its 60-year history, the number of retirees drawing from the Caisse’s coffers will outnumber the number of workers contributing to them.

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