The Pensions Infrastructure Platform, which has raised £1bn in soft commitments from UK pension funds, is launching a process to identify a possible manager.
The UK-based infrastructure and private equity fund manager has announced the issuance of a solar bond to be listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Some $1.5bn of debt held by the likes of Allianz, CPPIB, ADIA, CDC Infrastructure and UBS Infrastructure Fund is now rated BBB+.
Andrea Echberg of Pantheon expects to see infrastructure secondary deal flow of as much as $16bn within the next three years.
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L&T Infrastructure Finance is joining a handful of private equity firms taking advantage of distressed opportunities in India’s infrastructure market.
The UK developer has been handed preferred bidder status for the £335m Royal Liverpool hospital public-private partnership in the UK.
Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 4 has also secured a further €2bn in co-investment.
Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly in support of the fund’s divestment of its largest investment.
The Australian fund manager has, from within its own ranks, appointed a new chief executive of its UTA fund and a new global asset management head.
Over half of LPs in AXA PE’s third infrastructure fund are new investors. Find out why in our exclusive interview with head of infrastructure Mathias Burghardt.
A grouping made up of Sita UK, Lloyds Banking Group and Itochu Corporation has been named preferred bidder for a West London waste contract.
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Russia’s Vnesheconombank and Russian Direct Investment Fund have teamed up with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation for an infrastructure initiative.
The UK government’s cross-party Public Accounts Committee says it is “not convinced” that the £310bn list of projects is credible.
Private equity and real assets firm Altius Associates expects institutional allocations to infrastructure funds to rise from 1% to 5% in the next decade.
The two organisations have granted the government of Vietnam $30m as a ‘first step’ for the country’s public-private partnership regulatory platform.