Caroline Weir, a former partner and financial controller at NewSmith Asset Management, has joined the placement agent in London.
The vehicle has secured an A$100m cornerstone investment from Australian renewables financier CEFC.
The fund manager is teaming up with Genesee & Wyoming to buy Glencore's coal haulage business.
The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund is looking to make further inroads in infrastructure as part of a revamped real assets investment strategy.
The ‘all-Australian’ consortium’s unsolicited offer was chosen just two months after the government blocked bids by two Chinese suitors.
The partnership between two Middle Eastern finance companies will fund the King Abdullah Port, the first privately owned and funded port facility in Saudi Arabia.
The Auckland-based fund will now look to invest more in renewables, energy efficiency and ‘transformational’ infrastructure.
The Australian super fund said in August that it was aiming to deploy about A$1bn through direct investments in infrastructure.
The US firm has secured long-term debt from ING two months after closing its European renewable energy fund.
The Sydney-based fund manager has made its second investment in Australian social infrastructure within a month.
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The Australian firm's debt chief argues such an investment is not subject to economic booms and busts like other types of debt.
The deal, which is said to be worth just under €1.6bn, will be funded by the Australian firm’s recently closed fifth European vehicle.
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The agreement marks the second attempt by Indian giant Reliance Communications to sell its telecom towers in a bid to reduce debt.