Mumbai-based diversified company Piramal Enterprises and Dutch pension fund asset manager APG have committed $750m to the platform.
McMorgan & Co’s infrastructure fund is the sixth and final member to join the OMERS platform, which has closed on nearly $12.6bn.
CoBank, which is committing the initial $10bn, is the anchor investor of the US Rural Infrastructure Opportunity Fund that will invest in diverse sectors.
The Wellington Gateway Partnership consortium will finance, design and construct New Zealand’s Transmission Gully motorway.
According to an S&P study, Japanese infrastructure firms are rethinking alliances and upgrading expertise to tackle increasing competition in Southeast Asia.
The listed NextEnergy Solar Fund has struck an £18m agreement for Suffolk’s Ellough facility and is now almost three-quarters allocated.
John Hughes, formerly one of the most senior infrastructure executives at Macquarie, has joined the mid-market fund manager’s investment committee.
Vietnam has entered a $3.5m agreement with French engineering company Egis and ministerial agency Adetef to boost infrastructure via a PPP framework.
The US fund manager and the UK private sector pension fund have agreed to buy a container terminal in Virginia from APM Terminals.
Capital Dynamics and Wattage Finance have also agreed to help finance three power plants owned by NTE Energy.
The energy infra-focused investment firm is partnering with FGE Power in the financing and building of two natural gas facilities in Texas.
London’s largest local government pension is also looking at sharing resources with fellow investors through an “asset liability partnership”.
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Axione Infrastructures has issued the first project bond involving digital infra in France and Europe. The project benefits from the EIB project bond initiative.
Infrastructure Investor H1 2014 Fundraising Review
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has named former investment banker Ken Manget vice president of infrastructure.