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.
An overwhelming majority of energy professionals believe more opportunities will come up to invest in US pipelines, fresh research finds.
An Aussie super and a sovereign fund are also involved in the deal, which comes before the anticipated launch of AMP Capital’s second global infrastructure fund towards the end of the year.
The pension’s real assets chief is cautiously optimistic about his home market a year after CalPERS subsumed infrastructure into a wider real assets pocket.
The UK development-focused investor will deploy about $140m of equity in the platform, seeded with the Aga Khan Fund’s existing assets in East Africa.
The consultancy says it is seeing ‘rising client demand’ for investment advice in private markets.
The Dutch pension manager says investing in the US’s largest rooftop solar provider will give it access to a 275MW portfolio and put it in ‘virtual contact’ with 38,000 households.
The listed debt fund could seek to garner a further £210m through a placing programme.
The French firm’s oil storage platform will boost its terminal ownership from one to nine after purchasing facilities in France, Spain and Portugal.
As the world’s largest pension fund takes its first steps towards infrastructure, participants at our Tokyo Summit suggest the country’s LPs look set to follow suit.
Negative interest rates are pushing Japanese investors to see infrastructure as a fixed income substitute, giving an edge to the listed end of the asset class, panellists argued today.