Press Release

DBRS Assigns Provisional Rating of AAA to CPPIB Capital Inc.’s Series B Notes

Pension Funds
January 12, 2016

DBRS Limited (DBRS) has today assigned a provisional rating of AAA, with a Stable trend, to CPPIB Capital Inc.’s $1.25 billion, 1.00% Notes, Series B (the Series B Notes) maturing on January 15, 2019. The Series B Notes are unconditionally and irrevocably guaranteed by the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and rank pari passu with all other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated indebtedness of CPPIB Capital Inc.

Notes:
All figures are in Canadian dollars unless otherwise noted.

The related regulatory disclosures pursuant to the National Instrument 25-101 Designated Rating Organizations are hereby incorporated by reference and can be found by clicking on the link to the right under Related Research or by contacting us at info@dbrs.com.

The applicable methodologies are Rating Canadian Public Pension Funds & Related Exclusive Asset Managers and DBRS Criteria: Guarantees and Other Forms of Explicit Support, which can be found on our website under Methodologies.

This rating is endorsed by DBRS Ratings Limited for use in the European Union.

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Ratings

CPPIB Capital Inc.
  • Date Issued:Jan 12, 2016
  • Rating Action:Provis.-New
  • Ratings:AAA
  • Trend:Stb
  • Rating Recovery:
  • Issued:CA
  • US = Lead Analyst based in USA
  • CA = Lead Analyst based in Canada
  • EU = Lead Analyst based in EU
  • UK = Lead Analyst based in UK
  • E = EU endorsed
  • U = UK endorsed
  • Unsolicited Participating With Access
  • Unsolicited Participating Without Access
  • Unsolicited Non-participating

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