Eager to exploit rising investor appetite in the region, CapMan is considering the launch of an infrastructure fund.
The manager has picked professionals that have also worked at Goldman Sachs and the EBRD as it eyes further deployments from its renewables and energy storage funds.
The procuring agency has issued a request for developers interested in building a 14-stop light rail in Canada’s most populated province.
In keeping with its pedigree as a privatisation pioneer, Australia has in recent years captured the world’s attention thanks to a multi-billion dollar asset divestment programme. Should investors be concerned about changing political winds, though?
Australia, the world’s largest coal exporter, had been lobbying the bank for its fossil-fuel investment policies to cover coal- and gas-fired power projects.
The clean energy financier has also committed A$20m to a solar farm backed by the vehicle, its first direct equity investment in a solar project.
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The US firm has injected $500m of growth capital into Cologix at a time when 'more and more infrastructure funds are taking data centres seriously', according to one of its co-founders.
The vehicle drew commitments from New York State Teachers’ Retirement System, Texas County and District Retirement System and the City of Philadelphia Board of Pensions & Investment.
The Dutch firm is roughly half way to its hard-cap for the vehicle, which will target the likes of unregulated utilities, telecoms and storage.
Jim Barry and Mark Florian, respective infra heads at the two US firms, tell Infrastructure Investor about the acquisition’s rationale and how it will help BlackRock move up the risk curve.
The fund manager’s investment alongside Eurazeo will see Fonroche’s solar business siphoned off from the company’s other renewable energy business streams.
The US public pension has backed a North America-focused fund.
Backed by two Japanese trading companies, the 1.76GW project will seek financing after contracting its output to domestic utility PLN.
Japan’s GPIF intends to invest more in infrastructure in 2017 but is keen to underline its investment decisions remain insulated from government influence.
The infrastructure plan, first proposed before the US election, calls for tax credits of up to 82% of equity investments to lure in private investors.