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October 09 2024

10-Year Milestone: The TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund

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On August 31, 2024, TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (the Fund) marked its 10-year anniversary with a since-inception, annualized return of 18.2% in CAD. This represents a significant milestone as the Fund has now joined just a few open-ended infrastructure strategies globally that have a 10-year track record.

Over this 10-year period, the Fund experienced growth, and this summer, surpassed CAD $3.2 billion of Assets Under Management. The Fund now has 10 investment holdings with over 470 individual projects world-wide, with a significant value-add component that helps drive performance. The Fund offers an open-ended solution for clients to access global mid-market infrastructure, with core-plus and value-add attributes.

Strategic Approach to Value-Add

What sets the Fund apart is a consistent approach, developed over the past 10 years, to building new infrastructure. The team behind the Fund sees the lifecycle of infrastructure, from the early development stage to operating long-term projects, as a key source of returns. Over the years, we've built a portfolio where we've developed local teams focused on specialized sectors and geographies around the world, bringing our clients new development opportunities, local mergers and acquisitions, and a continued commitment to operational efficiency.


 



Executing in Energy Transition

Today, the Fund boasts exposure to the operation of over 3,000 Megawatts of renewable energy, enough to power approximately 1 million homes, and our portfolio has enough development projects to nearly double that capacity in the next three to five years, providing our clients with growth visibility.



Our 10-year track record means that we've cultivated the ability to develop and grow assets over the long term for our clients. It also means that we've developed deep knowledge of the sectors we operate in, and we have the potential to innovate for the future. We've made progress in Canadian energy storage, and today we are Canada's largest operator of grid-connected storage,4 a sector we believe is poised for future growth.
The renewables portfolio spans North America and Europe across both wind and solar, with battery storage exposure at renewables sites and through our Canadian battery storage platform.




Source: TDAM.

A Nimble Approach to the Mid-market

The long-term nature of our Fund means that we can take advantage of today's market dynamics to capitalize on trends that will benefit our clients for decades to come.
Over the past two years, we've acquired positions in global port operations across North America and Europe, creating a diversified portfolio of essential transportation assets for our clients.
At a time when many infrastructure investors have pulled back from transportation assets, coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic period, we saw an opportunity for entry points with operators that are well-known in the industry.
Over the next decade, we believe these ports are well positioned to improve supply chain reliability for their customers and grow their businesses as global trade trends continue to evolve.



Source: TDAM.

Beyond ports and renewable energy, the Fund's portfolio of 470+ assets also contains power generation assets in Western Canada, highway service plazas in the U.S., airport logistics facilities across Canada, and the largest transmission line in Canada5.
The portfolio has been built over the 10-year period with the goal of providing strong diversification of risk strategies, project-level economics and sector coverage.
 



Source: TDAM, as of June 30, 2024

The Next 10 Years

We have always had a multi-generational approach to investing in infrastructure, and today the Fund is ready for the next 10 years and beyond. We've strived to provide stability and investment excellence for the portfolio, with over 75% of our infrastructure investment team having been part of the Fund for more than half its life and the same founding Managing Director, Head of Global Infrastructure, Jeff Mouland.

This commitment to stability has allowed us to grow and develop a deep bench of talent to draw on for our portfolio. We also have a view to the future: next year, we expect growth in our London, England office, and global fundraising to expand our reach with clients has already begun.



1 TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund is comprised of TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Global Master) SCSp, TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Canada) L.P., TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Canada) L.P. II, TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Cayman Feeder) L.P. and TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Luxembourg Feeder) SCSp. Each of the feeder funds act as a feeder fund in a master-feeder structure and invests all or substantially all of its assets in TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Global Master) SCSp.

2 TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Global Master) SCSp produced a return of 11.41%, 10.11%, 11.36% and 15.74% in USD for the one-, three-, five- and 10-year periods since its inception, respectively, as of August 31, 2024.
TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Canada) L.P. produced a return of 11.05%, 12.55%, 11.70% and 18.21% in CAD for the one-, three-, five- and 10-year periods since its inception, respectively, as of August 31, 2024.
TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Canada) LP II produced a return of 11.45%, 10.19%, 11.35% and 10.11% in CAD for the one-, three-, five- and 10-year periods since its inception, respectively, as of August 31, 2024.

3 Includes the combined invested and committed capital of the TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Global Master) SCSp, the TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Canada) L.P., the TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Canada) L.P. II, the TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Cayman Feeder) L.P. and the TD Greystone Infrastructure Fund (Luxembourg Feeder) SCSp.

4 Source: https://calibercommunications.ca/enfinite-ereserve/
(Accessed on September 17, 2024.)

5 Source: https://www.electricity.ca/programs/centre-of-excellence/alberta-powerline-builds-canadas-longest-500-kv-ac-transmission-line/
(Accessed on September 17, 2024.)

 

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