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Financial Highlights

Historical information on the performance of assets available to the Canada Pension Plan, and financial statements of the CPP Investment Board, can be found under Quarterly Reports and Annual Reports.

YEAR-END FISCAL 2010 - NEWS RELEASE

The CPP Fund holdings summarized below are stated at fair value. Holdings are based on the Consolidated Statement of Investment Asset Mix contained in the CPP Investment Board's financial statements. These investments have been grouped based on the intent of the investment strategies of the underlying portfolios after allocating derivative contracts, associated money market securities and other investment receivables and liabilities to the asset classes to which they relate.

For the year ended March 31
Financial Overview
($ billions)
 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
CPP Fund*  127.6 105.5 122.7 116.6 98.0
Net contributions  6.1 6.6 6.5 5.6 3.6
Investment income net of operating expenses*** 16.0 (23.8) (0.4) 13.0 13.1
Investment Performance
(%) **
  2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
Annual 14.9 (18.6) (0.3) 12.9 15.5
Five-year
annualized
rate of return
4.0
2.8
10.7
10.4
8.6
Ten-year
annualized
rate of return 
 5.5  4.3  -  -  -
Investment Portfolio
($ billions)
 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
Equities          
  Canada  18.5 15.6 28.9 29.2 29.0
  Foreign developed
  markets
 46.2 40.4 47.5    46.1 32.7
  Emerging markets  6.5 4.6 0.7 - -
Fixed income          
  Bonds 36.8 28.4 30.2 29.2 27.2
  Other debt 3.5 1.8 1.1 - -
  Money market
  securities
0.3 (0.8) - 0.4 0.6
  Debt financing
  liabilities
 (1.3)  -  -  -  -
Inflation-sensitive
assets
         
  Real estate 7.0 6.9 6.9 5.7 4.2
  Infrastructure 5.8 4.6 2.8 2.2 0.3
  Inflation-linked
  bonds
4.4 4.1 4.7 3.8 4.0
  Investment
  Portfolio
127.7 105.6 122.8 116.6 98.0

* Includes non-investment assets such as premises and equipment and non-investment liabilities.
** Commencing in fiscal 2007, the rate of return reflects the performance of the investment portfolio, which excludes the Cash for Benefits portfolio.
*** The CPP Fund includes the non-marketable government bonds that predate the creation of the CPP Investment Board. We take these bonds into account when making investment decisions. Accordingly this financial highlights table for the CPP Fund includes the performance of these non-marketable government bonds.

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