{"id":65418,"date":"2024-11-26T09:40:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energi.media\/?p=65418"},"modified":"2024-11-26T09:40:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:40:59","slug":"harper-named-aimco-chair-amid-controversial-leadership-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energi.media\/news\/harper-named-aimco-chair-amid-controversial-leadership-overhaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Harper named AIMCo chair amid controversial leadership overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This article was published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/harper-named-aimco-chair-amid-controversial-leadership-overhaul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Energy Mix<\/a> on Nov. 26, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Gaye Taylor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alberta Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s decision to put former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper in charge of the province\u2019s largest investment manager was framed as a confidence boost, but critics argue the move is overreaching, politically motivated, and reckless in the face of escalating climate risks.<\/p>\n<p>Harper\u2019s appointment for a three-year term as chair of the Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) board comes around two weeks after provincial Finance Minister Nate Horner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/aimco-leadership-purged-over-spending-disputes-critics-cite-political-motives\/\">abruptly dismissed<\/a>\u00a0the CEO and board of directors,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/stephen-harper-appointed-chairman-of-alberta-investment-management-corporation-1.7388582\">reports<\/a>\u00a0CBC News. The shake-up sparked widespread debate about government overreach.<\/p>\n<p>AIMCo, one of Canada\u2019s largest public investment managers, oversees C$168 billion in assets, including Alberta\u2019s main savings account, its Heritage Savings Trust Fund (HSTF), and pension plans holding the retirement savings of 500,000 Albertans. The province also reinstated three former board members\u2014with a new CEO and additional directors to be named under Harper\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/news\/politics\/stephen-harper-alberta-aimco-board-chair\">guidance<\/a>. Smith said the changes will help grow the HSTF to more than $250 billion within 25 years,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/release.cfm?xID=91383E8C62503-EACA-9E70-50C4BBE2DB7B39F8\">calling<\/a>\u00a0Harper\u2019s role a step toward \u201cstrong governance oversight\u201d in a media release.<\/p>\n<p>Harper said he would take up the position on a pro-bono basis as an act of public service, adding that he felt \u201cuniquely positioned to help the organization improve its governance.\u201d But pension experts and advocates are raising red flags about his experience, conflicts of interest, and the manner in which he was appointed after the province swooped in to clean house at AIMCo.<\/p>\n<p>It was a move that \u201cshook the pension world,\u201d veteran reporter Ian Austen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com\/dynamic\/render?campaign_id=50&amp;emc=edit_cnda_20241123&amp;instance_id=140421&amp;isViewInBrowser=true&amp;nl=canada-letter&amp;productCode=CNDA&amp;regi_id=74046571&amp;segment_id=183936&amp;sendId=183936&amp;uri=nyt:\/\/newsletter\/a1d232aa-9e06-58a8-9978-503caccba624&amp;user_id=ce82a96cd20dba3f83abb88b6baddf11\">writes<\/a>\u00a0in the New York Times. Keith Ambachtsheer, emeritus director of the International Centre for Pension Management, told Austen it looked like a \u201cSoviet style\u201d purge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve talked to people from Australia to the United Kingdom about what\u2019s going on,\u201d Ambachtsheer said. \u201cThe Canadian pension model has become the global standard for how you should think about these things. Now here is a government that is kind of stepping outside those rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Horner had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/news\/politics\/alberta-fires-aimco-board-finance-minister-takes-over\">cited<\/a>\u00a0\u201clow investment returns and rising operating costs, management fees, and staffing [costs]\u201d to justify the overhaul. But Ambachtsheer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.institutionalinvestor.com\/article\/2e0gcudrz1f7u47953q4g\/corner-office\/justification-for-albertas-ousting-of-aimcos-board-and-ceo-called-into-question\">told<\/a>\u00a0Institutional Investor those claims were unsupported by AIMCo\u2019s annual reports.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Icing on a Distasteful Cake\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) President Gil McGowan\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/play\/video\/9.6570749\">told<\/a>\u00a0CBC News Harper\u2019s appointment was \u201cthe icing on a very distasteful cake,\u201d and accused the government of politicizing AIMCo\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Harper has a lot of government experience, he has zero pension experience,\u201d McGowan said, adding that he fears the board will prioritize \u201ctheir own agenda\u201d over the priorities of the hundreds of thousands of Albertans. Horner rejected the accusation that the appointment was political, but Alberta NDP finance critic Court Ellingson said the very appearance of it will \u201craise questions\u201d about AIMCo\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n<p>McGowan also criticized the Smith government\u2019s passage of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aupe.org\/news\/news-and-updates\/government-omnibus-bill-attack-your-pensions\">Bill 22<\/a>\u00a0two years ago, which forced public pension plans in Alberta to use AIMCo as their fund manager in perpetuity. The AFL and eight other Alberta unions are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/afl.org\/press-release-unions-demand-seats-on-the-aimco-board-and-a-return-to-optionality\/\">demanding<\/a>\u00a0union representation on the AIMCo board, and a return to \u201coptionality\u201d\u2014a provision that allows pension funds to fire their manager if they feel it is not acting in their best interests. Alberta\u2019s move to appoint \u201cwhat is clearly a political board\u201d to AIMCo is such an occasion, said McGowan.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, one of the individuals rehired to the AIMCo board, tax lawyer Jason Montemurro, donated over $11,000 to the United Conservative Party over the last three years,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonjournal.com\/news\/politics\/stephen-harper-alberta-aimco-board-chair\">writes<\/a>\u00a0the Edmonton Journal, adding that Horner will make no further appointments till they are discussed with Harper.<\/p>\n<p>McGowan also said he was worried about the fund\u2019s future direction. Smith\u2019s move to grow and transform Alberta\u2019s $24.3-billion HSTF can only be possible with very risky investments, he suggested, citing oil and gas as a sector carrying risk.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Climate Risks and Fossil Fuel Ties<\/h2>\n<p>The prospect of AIMCo-managed funds being moved into \u201chigh-risk oil and gas\u201d also raised concerns for Toronto-based pension watchdog Shift Action. Alberta\u2019s political interference could make navigating escalating climate risks impossible, Shift\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shiftaction.ca\/news\/2024\/11\/21\/aimcoboard\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a recent release.<\/p>\n<p>One indicator came in June, when Smith expressed her intent to use the HSTF to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/albertapolitics.ca\/2024\/06\/danielle-smith-says-she-wants-to-skim-heritage-fund-investment-revenues-to-de-risk-fossil-fuel-investments-lenders-wont-touch\/\">de-risk projects that we\u2019re finding difficult to be able to get financing<\/a>.\u201d Yesterday, The Canadian Press\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/alberta-seeks-to-de-risk-oil-gas-pipeline-investments-in-wake-of-trump-victory\/article_e45fac77-1e7f-50ce-87a9-6d1a6dad14d4.html\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that Smith wants to de-risk oil and gas pipeline projects in the wake of Donald Trump\u2019s election win in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Labelling AIMCo as \u201cCanada\u2019s worst major pension fund\u201d for managing climate risk, Shift said the fund is lagging as its Canadian and global peers race to adopt science-based investment goals, climate transition plans, and a variety of climate risk management tools. In recent years, AIMCo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/alberta-pension-fund-manager-aimco-loses-4-billion-on-bad-fossil-investments\/\">lost<\/a>\u00a0$4 billion in a bad bet on fluctuating global oil prices, not long before since-dismissed CEO Evan Siddall made a pitch against fossil fuel divestment\u2014a position that contradicted AIMCo\u2019s own policies, Shift\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theenergymix.com\/aimco-ceo-contradicts-policy-with-fossil-investment-pitch-watchdog-says\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, \u201cAIMCo\u2019s new chair and directors themselves have direct entanglements with the fossil fuel industry,\u201d Shift wrote in its more recent release. Director Navjeet Singh (Bob) Dhillon\u2014one of the three dismissed members brought back\u2014was also a board member for Strathcona Resources, a rapidly growing oil and gas producer. Harper\u2019s political ties and his role as a working equity partner with Azimuth Capital\u2014a private equity firm with $5.8 billion invested primarily in oil and gas\u2014deepens the entanglement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlarmingly, Alberta\u2019s finance minister has indicated that Harper\u2019s appointment as AIMCo chair didn\u2019t require clearance from the province\u2019s ethics commissioner, despite reports that the commissioner\u2019s office had already flagged potential conflicts of interest,\u201d Shift wrote.<\/p>\n<p>With Alberta\u2019s economy already \u201cdeeply vulnerable\u201d to overexposure to the oil and gas industry, Shift said, \u201cit is critical for Alberta to have an independent public investment manager able to prudently manage climate-related risks and invest for the future with the hard-earned savings of Albertans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This article was published by The Energy Mix on Nov. 26, 2024. By Gaye Taylor Alberta Premier Danielle Smith\u2019s decision to put former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper in charge of the province\u2019s largest investment <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/energi.media\/news\/harper-named-aimco-chair-amid-controversial-leadership-overhaul\/\" title=\"Harper named AIMCo chair amid controversial leadership overhaul\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":65419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,13,459,14,542,2811,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-65418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-conservatives","11":"tag-featured","12":"tag-investment","13":"tag-pensions","14":"tag-stephen-harper"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AIMCo - Thoughtful Journalism About Energy&#039;s Future<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/energi.media\/news\/harper-named-aimco-chair-amid-controversial-leadership-overhaul\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AIMCo - Thoughtful Journalism About Energy&#039;s Future\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This article was published by The Energy Mix on Nov. 26, 2024. 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