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With Fund III closed at a record €4bn and Funds I and II returning 26% and 35% respectively, EQT head of real assets Lennart Blecher tells us what makes the Swedish manager stand out from the pack.
The Illinois pension wants help with its private markets partnerships sale.
The firm has high hopes for the French market as it agrees two deals with insurance companies worth up to €1.2bn.
The alternatives investment manager has appointed a senior consultant in its QIC Global Infrastructure team and named a new chairperson for its A$400m portfolio company Epic Energy.
This is the third airport to be privatised by the Japanese government, following deals for Sendai Airport and Osaka and Kansai airports in the past two years.
Weeks away from its most important election in living memory, France is bracing itself for a fair bit of political volatility. Yet for infrastructure investors, the market seems more exciting than it has been for a few years.
The Paris-based firm paid €325m for a 10 percent stake in a Spanish oil pipeline and storage company.
One of real estate’s most popular ownership vehicles has found a niche within infrastructure in the past decade. But will the troubles of the last year scare off investors, or will the clarity brought by regulatory rulings bring more into the space?
The subsidiary of Japan’s ORIX Corporation says the partnership may expand past the 13 projects currently in development.
The 6,500-bed portfolio acquired by Liberty Living from Blackstone has made the company the UK’s second-largest owner of student accommodation.
Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions has fully deployed its first UK infrastructure debt fund with this deal.
The Hong Kong-listed fund manager has recently acquired an undersea cable project in Hong Kong as the second seed asset for its overseas vehicle.
The world’s largest multilateral public bank has also signed agreements of €450m for transport and clean energy projects in India.
Bearkat I in Glasscock County, one of two Texas wind farms acquired by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners last summer, is expected to be operational by the end of 2017.
The £5bn pension has split the £100m allocation it put up for tender in November between two managers after receiving 22 offers.