Fundraising

Property firm Wheatley Group will provide 3,500 new homes in Scotland following backing by BlackRock’s real assets arm.

Inspections by the Danish financial services authorities will become more frequent following ‘concerns’ about the alternatives investment skills of pension funds.

MEIF5 is seeking to help Inlandsbanan modernise a railway in part over 100 years old, a deal that would represent Macquarie’s second Swedish rail investment after exiting Arlanda in 2014.

The fund has a broad mandate, investing globally across corporates, real estate and infrastructure.

The French firm eyes further deals in the country through a partnership with a local operator and a developer.

A Macquarie-led consortium has bought the UK’s Green Investment Bank, prompting questions about the bank’s future role in financing the country’s green economy and its original mission as a catalyst of new technologies.

The state’s energy infrastructure programme will include a $112m investment in a new transmission line to unlock 2GW of renewable energy projects in the north.

The clean energy financier is more than doubling its commitment to a NAB programme providing discounted loans to buyers of clean energy equipment.

 The firm expects to reach first close by year-end with the European Investment Bank among the LPs.  

BlackRock will focus on deploying the remainder of First Reserve’s Fund II before eyeing the launch of a new vehicle next year.

‘Challenging execution’ at a time of heightened competition is pushing sovereigns towards real estate rather than infrastructure, a survey finds.

The French firm has now deployed about 70% of its €1bn Fund III within eight months of closing it.

The move comes as the French firm establishes a debt and real assets division.