The secondaries-focused effort, which includes a commingled strategy and separate accounts, is around twice the size of the firm’s 2009-vintage programme.
Macquarie’s infrastructure debt platform is providing three facilities to A Shade Greener, a residential housing and solar PV operator.
Borealis, AP3, Folksam and AP1 have agreed to buy the country’s second-largest power network, allowing the Finnish utility to post about €6.3bn in sales gain from the divestment of its distribution activities.
The Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System total portfolio reported a net return of 6.4% in 2014, despite a ‘difficult’ second half of the year.
Ohio State University has issued an RFQ exploring the possibility of outsourcing the management of its energy systems under a 50-year concession.
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Despite criticism of the move from the US, the UK has expressed its intention to be a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
The Australian fund manager has agreed to acquire ITR Concession Company, its second toll road investment in the Americas this year.
The Chinese sovereign wealth fund sees East Africa as one of the most attractive developing regions at a time of return compression in developed countries.
While the oil price drop has put pressure on renewable energy in developed markets, the story is different in emerging markets where demand is huge and growing.
40 percent investors are open to opportunities in Asia-Pacific
The RFI for infra investment managers focusing on Chicago is the latest development at the pension fund, which recently named a new executive director and is in the process of seeking a new CIO.
Investors underline the importance of cold-headedness in an environment where hard-to-quantify risks can hide behind apparent value.
LPFA deputy chair Sir Merrick Cockell predicts collaboration will see UK pensions competing with SWFs.
The Starwood Energy-backed solar developer has appointed Juan Alvarez to the newly-created position of vice president of asset management.
The creation of the Global Infrastructure Investors Association comes less than a year after a Meridiam-led group of institutions formed the Long-Term Infrastructure Investors Association.