The UK platform is bulking up its senior team little more than a month after being given the green light to become a direct manager.
The $1.7bn loan is the largest project financing to date in Japan.
The $32bn pension fund has tapped Karl Polen, until now head of private markets, to serve as its new investment chief following the departure of Gary Dokes.
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The France-based business school aims to attract more investors to the asset class through benchmarking and education.
The European firm is said to be working on appointing sell-side advisers as it gears up to divest its interest in the oil storage group.
The German fund manager’s new vehicle will invest 75% of capital raised in unlisted funds, with the remainder channelled to direct investments.
Melbourne Metro, a A$10.9bn project, is expected to generate returns of up to A$1.5 for every dollar invested.
The Australian lender, which hoped to sell the fund manager for more than A$500m, is said to have received bids that were far below its expectations.
The New York-based firm is more than halfway towards meeting its final target of $300m.
The network that will advise countries interested in PPPs in a bid to plug an estimated $10-$20trn infra investment gap by 2030.
Sean McLachlan joins the insurer’s asset management arm from Balfour Beatty at a time when the firm seeks to grow its yield-focused investment offering.
The largest state-regulated leasing business in China is seeking to raise about $130m through a public offering in Hong Kong.
The $27m transaction is the first asset-backed security arranged by a foreign sponsor in Japan’s solar sector.
The three Canadian pension funds acquiring the 7.8-mile toll road have reached the milestone within three months since the $2.8bn transaction was announced.
Commitments by the Strathclyde Pension Fund and the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund helped propel the renewables developer to its hard-cap.