News Luxcara has acquired the solar project Guillena-Salteras located in southern Spain.
The plant will have a projected capacity of approximately 121 MWp. Construction works will begin shortly. The facility is expected to be connected to the grid in Q2/2020. Like project El Salobral, which Luxcara acquired in December 2017, Guillena-Salteras will sell the (...)
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News Infravia IV hits its hard cap in closing at Eur 2bn
InfraVia announces the completion of the acquisition of Mater Private hospital group on 31st July 2018 following receipt of the necessary regulatory approvals. Mater Private is the first investment of InfraVia’s fourth infrastructure (...)
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Pedagogy Infrastructure : A Growing asset class
Even if infrastructure investments shares some of the characteristics with fixed income (long term predictable yield), real estate (investing in physical assets) and private equity (leverage is used), its popularity is increasing among (...)
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News IFC Issues First Masala Bonds in London, Attracting International Investment for Infrastructure in India
IFC, a member of the World Bank, issued a 10-year, 10 billion Indian rupee bond (equivalent to $163 million) to increase foreign investment in India, mobilizing international capital markets to support infrastructure development in the (...)
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News Meridiam announces the closing of the reopening of its Africa fund at €546 million, 2.5 times its initial size
Launched in 2015, for an initial amount of €207 million, the initial commitment has already been fully invested two years before the end of the investment period. At the end of this closing, it is now 2.5 times bigger than at the (...)
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News Meridiam acquires a 85% stake in two motorway concessions in Spain and strengthens its partnership with Cintra
Meridiam signed an agreement to acquire an 85% stake from Cintra subsidiary of Grupo Ferrovial, and Unicaja Banco in Autopista del Sol, two independent motorway concessions Ausol I and Ausol II.
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Strategy Protecting From the Crash With Private Infrastructure Assets
CEPRES today released an analysis demonstrating how Private (unlisted) Infrastructure can act as a Hedge for Corporate Bonds, whilst significantly outperforming on returns. Using PE.Analyzer to analyze thousands of privately held Infrastructure assets, CEPRES found (...)
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News Fiera Infrastructure Increases Equity Interest in Thames Water
Fiera Infrastructure Inc. ("Fiera Infrastructure"), through its wholly owned subsidiary, Aquila GP Inc., a leading infrastructure management firm and an affiliate of Fiera Capital Corporation ("Fiera Capital" or the "Firm") (TSX: FSZ), announced today the acquisition of an (...)
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News BlackRock Real Assets completes first close of Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund III
BlackRock Real Assets has completed the first close of its latest energy and power infrastructure fund, Global Energy & Power Infrastructure Fund III (“GEPIF III”). GEPIF III focuses on equity investments in the mid-market energy and power infrastructure value chain (...)
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News Meridiam reaches financial close in Turkey for Elazig integrated health campus PPP project with the first investment grade and social project bond enhanced by EBRD and MIGA
Meridiam, a leading global investor and asset manager specializing in public and community infrastructure, announced today that it has reached financial close for the Elazig Integrated Health Campus PPP Project.
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News North Tarrant express now open to drivers
As a unique public-private partnership (P3), and the first Comprehensive Development Agreement project signed in the state of Texas in 2009, the NTE project serves as a financial model for other P3 projects.
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Note US Energy infrastructure: The MLP example
Among infrastructure assets, energy infrastructure assets such as pipelines, storage facilities or processing plants, are experiencing a rapid growth, especially in the USA. Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) have played a key role in facilitating investment in US energy (...)
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Strategy ACOFI Management has just launched a fund dedicated to energy infrastructures : Transition Energétique France
In terms of performance, the fund objective is to provide an IRR (internal rate of return) between 8% and 10% with a 8 years investment horizon, taking into account a recurring cash revenue given an 5% annual coupon (...)
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News InfraVia has closed the fundraising of InfraVia Fund IV at is EUR 2 billion hard cap
InfraVia Capital Partners today announces that it has closed the fundraising of InfraVia European Fund IV at its EUR 2 billion hard cap.
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News Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and African Development Bank sign MoU to promote cooperation
A Memorandum of Understanding to enhance collaboration on sustainable economic development was signed on April 18 by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the African Development Bank and formalized during the World Bank-International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in (...)
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