We bring you some expected highlights from our last conference of the year, due to kick off next week.
Expert analysis by Jason Clatworthy, managing director, Jay Moody, managing director, and Hiral Bhatt, senior director, at Alvarez & Marsal Taxand
The Montreal-based firm has made its first investment through the fund, backing a Greek solar farm with a long-term off-take agreement.
Daniele Gatti, CFO at Ambienta, shares his insight on ESG reporting at a firm focused on positive environmental impact.
The Chinese investment bank's first fund closed the acquisition of a 7.16 percent stake in the Jinan-Qingdao high-speed railway line in October.
The Dutch manager is back in market with the sixth edition of its flagship strategy and its second Core Infrastructure Fund.
Australian infra head Michael Hanna says the capex spend - 'one of the biggest across the Australian economy over the next decade' - is ‘very appealing’ due to high valuations for core infra.
The fund will target renewables in UK and Europe, as well as eyeing assets in Australia.
The $1.6bn project is being jointly developed with Thailand´s Gulf Energy Development, and has been backed by a consortium of 16 lenders.
OPIC’s David Bohigian explains how Blue Dot Network, a multilateral initiative backed by the US, Australia and Japan, will establish best practices that will serve ‘as a seal of approval on project excellence’.
The NY-based fund manager, which is looking to raise $1.25bn for an India-focused vehicle, is also on the fundraising trail for a $5bn fund targeting brownfield opportunities only, in LatAm and Asia.
The 6% annual returns JPMorgan AM predicts infrastructure equity will generate over the next decade, will ‘offset a lot of the pain that will at some point come’.
Andrew Claerhout is joining the NY-based private equity firm, which has exposure to telecoms and digital infrastructure, as it looks to launch a broader infra strategy.
The 2019 Infrastructure Investor Hong Kong Summit took place against a backdrop of protests. It’s clear investors are aware of the opportunities that Asia can provide – but many are still wary of the risks involved.
The move comes after initial efforts to end such funding by the end of 2020 were resisted by EU member states.