CEO Izabelle Scemama said the French asset manager is interested in ‘the classic infrastructure sectors’, but not PPPs where returns are ‘more challenging’.
Private equity financial sponsors ‘take advantage’ of over-performance by paying themselves instead of repaying debt, according to a report from Standard & Poor’s.
The new regime is slightly more lenient than earlier proposals, although the regulator says consumers would save £6bn over the five-year regulatory period.
Countries such as India, China, Japan and South Korea are aiming to attract private capital to the midstream and downstream space. But, challenges remain in some markets.
China’s recent efforts to reduce its economy’s addiction to debt have brought more infrastructure assets to market and slowed down domestic competition, several analysts and investors say.
Stepstone-managed vehicle is looking to raise capital from up to 32 London-based pension funds for its UK-focused fund.
Clean Energy Council argues new law will drive up construction costs as Impact Investment Group scheme files Supreme Court action.
Korean and Japanese investors reveal their risk appetites and favoured sub-strategies for the asset class this year.
The opposition Labour party’s flawed plans for nationalising the UK’s energy network should leave investors worried.
The wave of automation that is just starting to hit private equity portfolios needs to be thought-through from an ESG standpoint, delegates at the Operating Partners Forum: Europe were warned on Tuesday.
Performance is important but so is knowing the actions a GP takes to achieve that performance, says pension fund’s advisor.
A lengthy approval process needs to be halved if the country is to meet its goal of installing 10GW of wind capacity by 2030, law firm White & Case says.
QIC had made an offer of A$1.95 per share, which valued the fibre network operator at approximately A$493 million.
Global head of infra debt Andrew Jones walks us through the deployment of AMP Capital’s $2.5bn third junior debt fund, now fully invested.
Portfolio diversification, co-investment and how to get the right returns across equity and debt were some of the most-discussed topics at our two summits.