Canada’s largest pension fund is planning to increase investments in south-east Asia with an early focus on real estate projects, fresh from making its first direct property investment in the region in August.

Speaking at the SuperReturn conference in Hong Kong on September 23, Pierre Lavallee, a senior managing director and global head of investment partnerships at the 268.6 billion Canadian dollar ($214.4 billion) Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, said: "If there's one area where we're still earlier stage in our understanding and our deployment of capital it's probably south-east Asia, and I would say that is on the to do list."