The investment manager is integrating its infrastructure, real estate, private debt and private equity businesses as it gets clearance from French regulators to raise renewables fund.
The Japanese insurer’s decision to create an alternatives division follows sister company Japan Post Bank’s move last December to establish a private equity division, as part of its efforts to diversify beyond domestic bonds.
The German asset manager is nearly three-quarters of the way to its €600m target six months after launching the vehicle.
For years, US offshore wind was characterised by the failure of the Cape Wind project. But now investors are talking about the success of Block Island and what comes next, finds Jordan Stutts.
The deal comprises the purchase of 37MW of greenfield assets and rights to acquire an additional 165MW of solar projects from a German developer.
The firm has hired Mainstream Renewable Power’s Barry Lynch to lead its energy operations, one of three hires it made for the unit this month.
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Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions has appointed two veterans to expand its global $4.4bn debt business as it eyes US energy, transport, telecoms and social infra P3s.
The Canadian institution has agreed to offer intellectual support to China’s economic planners as they seek to shake up the pension sector and attract investment in senior care.
Singapore has been courting Chinese lenders in an effort to help its companies gain an edge in upcoming tenders under Beijing’s ‘One Belt and Road’ scheme.
The San Francisco-based energy company has spent over half of the $239m it raised in a stock offer last month on the 180MW Armow wind farm.
The UK-listed company has surpassed the £25m it planned to raise to help pay for a Scottish wind farm it agreed to purchase last week.
The Canadian firm is teaming up with CIC and GIC to acquire the asset in a deal funded by its landmark $14bn infrastructure vehicle.
From hydro to India, APG Europe head Ron Boots takes Matthieu Favas through an 11-year journey of tailored solutions to achieve the kind of scale that befits one of the world’s largest pensions.
The ‘all-Australian’ unsolicited bid is now under review as the New South Wales government prepares to relaunch an auction for Australia’s largest power network.
Projects backed under the initiative include a $220m solar farm in Nigeria, a $300m dual-fuel power plant in Senegal and pan-African debt platforms.