Nearly two hundred investors, lenders, and project principals gathered at the London Stock Exchange for the third annual Canadian Indigenous Investment Summit — and nobody left the sessions. One of Canada's Maple Eight pension funds noted that the corridors were empty all day: a small detail, and a precise one.

In this post-summit debrief, Drumbeats hosts Mark Magnacca and Rob Brant go through what the room revealed — the conversations that moved furthest and the intelligence that matters for institutional capital with an interest in Canada.

On energy: A major LNG project in northwest British Columbia is approaching a final investment decision. The Indigenous nation involved holds a fifty-fifty equity stake. The key insight from the session was not the project's scale. It was that the Indigenous partner has been activ ...