The airport is jointly held by its MEIF1 and MEIF3 funds alongside the Belgian government and OTPP, with the latter believed not to be among the bidders.
Investors highlighted the need for local partnerships to go deeper into unexplored geographies
Australia deciding to block a Chinese purchase of a national asset is not new – but its decision to block CK Infrastructure’s bid for APA Group feels different.
The company sees no threat to its business in the country from president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who recently scrapped the partially built Mexico City airport.
A sharp drop in battery costs and the nascent sector’s ability to solve renewables’ intermittency issues could create a $1.2trn investment opportunity over the next two decades, according to a panel at the Infrastructure Investor Summit.
‘Heavy industry in Taiwan is actually quite advanced and sophisticated, but they’re not used to working in joint ventures,’ warns our panel of developers.
The two firms say they ‘will be blazing some trails’, with the sub-sector set to become a ‘bigger part of the infrastructure market’.
The transaction marks InfraCo Asia’s full exit from the Coc San plant in Vietnam, six years after its initial investment.
The Employees Retirement System of Texas plans to nearly double the current size of its infrastructure portfolio in the upcoming fiscal year with a view to growing it to $2.62 billion by 2023. The pension fund – the infrastructure portfolio of which had a net asset value of $571.2 million as at 30 September, accounting […]
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The closing of Manulife Financial's stapled deal in June – among the largest in North America this year – is further evidence that large asset holders and managers have a third option for their assets.
The UK fund manager could come back to market next year to raise further funds after falling short of its $257m target.
A hot market for core infrastructure is leading managers to explore the outer edges of the asset class, with a focus on service provision. Jordan Stutts reports from the new frontier.
Renewable energy capacity is only going to increase, and asset repowering could play a big part in that. Zak Bentley explains why the future might partly lie in the past
Looking at what will shape the infrastructure space going forward is clearly an exciting exercise – not least because the trends are firmly rooted in the present.