With managers increasingly putting pressure on LPs to enter the carry early, Threadmark partner Patricia Wilkinson and PEI senior editors Bruno Alves, Jonathan Brasse and Toby Mitchenall look across asset classes to find out whether the status quo really is changing.
As asset managers become increasingly exposed to cybercrime, one not-for-profit is developing interoperability standards that would prevent private equity firms from becoming the target of cyber-criminals.
The Canada Infrastructure Bank has provided its first project loan, committing C$1.28 billion ($980 million; €840 million) to help bring CDPQ Infra’s Montreal light rail development to financial close. CIB’s financing is a 15-year senior secured loan at a 1 percent rate, which rises to 3 percent over the term length. The C$35 billion federal […]
The Aussie superfund’s solo bid beat a joint offer from MIRA and Sunsuper, with Cbus dropping out of the process.
The firm has again bid €53 per share for the Hamburg-based company, despite the price being previously dismissed.
Investors seeking greater exposure to data, IT and specialised fund managers contributed to SDC’s success, firm’s placement agent says.
The airport will realise ‘significant’ cost savings from the deal, taking 95,000 MWh annually from Crudine Ridge Wind Farm, approximately 25% of the facility’s output.
Investors including APG, CalSTRS and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority renewed their commitments to CapDyn’s North American clean energy strategy.
Euan McVicar is the second recent departure from Macquarie Group to the UK electricity regulator, following Simon Wilde’s move earlier this month.
Potential crisis around trade, Brexit and Italy’s government could cause trouble for credit markets.
The project in Victoria has a long-term PPA agreement in place with Origin Energy and is expected to appeal to mid-market renewables investors.
With the blame game in full swing, the country’s new government has not hesitated to politicise the Morandi Bridge collapse.
The move for BridgeTex marks the Canadian pension’s ‘re-entry’ into the US midstream sector and its third energy deal in the country this year.
While the region continues to experience some volatility and uncertainty – elections, slower-than-expected economic recovery and the lingering after-effects of corruption – infrastructure investors tell Kalliope Gourntis all the reasons that keep them coming back.
The Old Mutual subsidiary’s various vehicles are now invested in about 25% of renewable energy in the country, which recently rebooted its renewables programme.