Matthieu Favas
Matthieu Favas is the editor of Agri Investor. He was previously the web editor of Infrastructure Investor, where he started in 2013 after a year as a reporter at Private Equity International. Prior to joining PEI he spent four years in the wine industry in London, Spain and Mongolia.
The transaction, which will see the Canadian pension and the UK asset manager own a joint 40% of the rail operator, is part of the UK’s government efforts to sell £20bn of assets by 2020.
The French fund manager is eyeing a final close by the end of June.
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Andreas Koettering has joined the Singapore sovereign fund as a senior vice president after six years at the Canadian pension.
Andreas Koettering has joined the Singapore sovereign fund as a senior vice president after seven years at the Canadian pension.
The UK’s PIP has made a good start at rethinking the way pensions can access infrastructure, but it remains to be seen whether it is capable of deploying a lot of money on their behalf.
The Paris-based firm will operate a 44km section of the A4 Autobahn jointly with developer Vinci.
The firm, which initially invested in the Czech gas distribution network in 2012, will own 49.96% of the business.
The French fund manager and institution have signed a 50-year concession to finance the transformation of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais into a single port.
The UK-listed firm’s infrastructure arm has invested in two companies owned by Germany’s Oiltanking, adding to the three terminals it initially backed in 2007.
The $6.5bn emerging markets firm has just launched its eighth clean energy platform. The strategy could give a high-voltage jolt to energy industries across many developing economies.