CEO Tobias Reichmuth tells us 75% of the fund’s projects must come with long-term capacity agreements, how SUSI is mitigating risk and the returns premium first-movers can extract from the sector.
The Strategic Investments Fund will target major infrastructure projects, becoming the third vehicle to be added to the NIIF platform.
The firm believes the asset class could be ‘significantly bigger than the hedge fund industry’, having hired GIP’s Kyle Alexander earlier this year to help with the expansion.
Between five and 10 unsubsidised projects are to be developed alongside partner Ilmatar, with potential for other investors to join.
UC Regents’ Scott Chan will be second-in-command to Christopher Ailman, who has led investment at the pension for almost two decades.
After nine years, the pension's new head of infrastructure, Scott Lawrence, is back at the group he helped launch. With an influx of member money on the cards and scope to increase its infra allocation from 8% to 10%, we find out what’s next for CPPIB.
Singapore’s Changi Airports is part of the winning consortium, making it the second foreign investor to participate in Japan’s privatisation programme after France’s Vinci Airports took over three hubs in the past two years.
The proposed 320MW lagoon scheme in Wales had received up to $265m in commitments from InfraRed and Infracapital.
New commitments from institutional investors have driven the renewables-focused asset manager closer to its €1.1bn target.
Half of that amount will come from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund as the firm aims to raise $10 billion to $15 billion before next March.
Demand for regulated assets shows no signs of abating, but neither does regulatory risk as a major investor concern. We delve into the apparent cognitive dissonance.
Europe’s ‘largest private project’ could still face legal challenges, including one backed by London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan.
GPs are jumping at the chance to make use of credit lines, the investment consultant says, and greater transparency at the fund level is needed to help investors clearly assess performance.
The Dorset fund questioned whether Hermes has an exit strategy if regulated assets in the country are taken public.
Kit Hamilton and Tim Humphrey will serve as co-heads of the infrastructure debt platform as MIDIS’s co-founders James Wilson and Andrew Robertson step down but ‘remain closely involved’ in the business.