The cities of Osaka and Hamamatsu will likely spearhead moves to privatise water infrastructure, according to Moody’s, with small municipalities set to follow suit.
The federal government now has to decide whether it will build the proposed $3.7bn airport itself or offer the opportunity to private sector companies.
Following last month's hire of Gordon Bajnai, the former Prime Minister of Hungary, the firm has recruited a veteran of Canada's third-largest public pension plan.
The Dutch pension manager says investing in the US’s largest rooftop solar provider will give it access to a 275MW portfolio and put it in ‘virtual contact’ with 38,000 households.
The listed debt fund could seek to garner a further £210m through a placing programme.
The group now controls 85% of A4 Holding following its €594m swoop on 51% of the company in September last year.
Despite the process being part suspended, the regional government of Murcia has gone ahead with the tender, shortlisting Aena, Edeis and Corporación América.
Revenue stream visibility is a key issue for battery storage projects. We look at Macquarie Capital’s recent financing of 50MW of batteries in California to find out what it says about the nascent asset class.
At the Milken Institute Global Conference, Brookfield’s Bruce Flatt and Carlyle’s David Rubenstein said US infrastructure will hold desirable investments for the next decade.
The $128bn pension manager said the greater adoption of the direct investment model globally is making the market much more competitive.
Simon and Jessica Wilde find that unlisted returns, when adjusted for risk, outperform listed infrastructure and the wider equity markets. However, investors need to assess the relative merits of unlisted and listed infrastructure against other asset classes
Done correctly, these new vehicles allow regulatory capital under Solvency II to be cut by up to 16 and 18 percentage points for infrastructure debt and equity respectively, Jegor Tokarevich and Jens-Eric von Duesterlho explain
Amid a burgeoning need for faster digital infrastructure across Europe, Cube Infrastructure managing partner Henri Piganeau talks about how the sector fits into its strategy and sheds light on the €500m fund it is managing for the EIB and the European Commission
The deal ensures the company becomes one of the largest solar PV owners in the country following a deal with Riverstone and bankrupt developer SunEdison.
Infracapital and Morgan Stanley’s sale of Affinity Water is the latest in a series of transactions in the UK water sector in recent months.