The unit is hoping to sign its first mandate with the group’s insurance company and will focus on senior investment-grade infrastructure debt.
The Asian country is looking to revamp its PPP framework in an effort to attract more overseas money to its infrastructure projects.
LP investment preference
The project manager has hired two in senior roles as it seeks to gain a greater foothold in the wind energy market.
A 1% rise in global infrastructure spending could help bring about a 1.2% boost in global GDP, fresh research suggests.
Recent people move
Paul Davies and Aaron Franklin, from Latham & Watkins, argue that Chinese issuers could attract more international investors if they made sure a portion of domestic bonds conform with international green bond standards.
The soon-to-be-privatised lender is helping the county of Kent replace 120,000 street lights in the largest such PFI project to date.
Moscow-backed RDIF and India’s NIIF will each contribute $500m to the new vehicle.
The Sydney-based developer hopes the transaction will help ‘re-activate’ the Australian PPP bond market which has been dormant since 2008.
The asset manager, which recently launched a new core infrastructure fund, is teaming up with two developers to build a stretch of the A6.
Caroline Weir, a former partner and financial controller at NewSmith Asset Management, has joined the placement agent in London.
The vehicle has secured an A$100m cornerstone investment from Australian renewables financier CEFC.
The fund manager is teaming up with Genesee & Wyoming to buy Glencore's coal haulage business.
Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx are using a public private partnership model to procure a developer to build a $1.4 billion transit project in Ontario.