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Stockholm-based Infranode has €160m in initial commitments and will target small and mid-cap Nordic deals.
A write-down on portfolio company Pacific Hydro is expected to bring down the value of the firm’s Australian Infrastructure Fund by 5%.
The Ohio pension fund has allocated $50m to Fortress Investment Group’s maiden infra fund which closed on $995m in August.
The Washington State Investment Board has committed $100m to a Prostar fund and will co-invest up to another $100m with a portfolio company.
The acquisition is being made through the partnership between KKR Natural Resources and Fleur de Lis Energy.
The latest managers backed by London’s largest local government pension include Semperian and the Energy and Minerals Group.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has proposed a fund to promote clean and affordable energy.
The fund is starting with €1.05bn and will target energy infrastructure investments in Northern and Western Europe as well as North America.
The firms are part of the consortium that will develop and operate Victoria’s East West Link road project, for which it will contribute A$3.3bn.
Slowly but surely, Norway’s $860bn oil fund is preparing the ground for investing in infrastructure.
Global insurers are willing to take on more risk, re-allocating assets to infrastructure and real estate, as fixed income yields stagnate, a study has found.
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The IFC is considering an equity investment of up to $90m in Road Holdco, a holding company created by I Squared Capital.
The regional port authority is inviting respondents to submit development concepts for one, two or all of the three sites in the complex.
KfW IPEX-Bank is part of a six-strong banking group providing debt capital for the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein project.
Long-term financing for Project Gemini, involving the construction of the world’s second-largest wind farm, has been secured.