News The Mirova Core Infrastructure Fund (“MCIF”) takes 85% stake in parking concessions which own nearly 4478 off-street and 2030 on-street parking spaces in France
Mirova, a wholly owned subsidiary of Natixis Asset Management dedicated to responsible investment, is pleased to announce that its EUR 700M fund dedicated to brownfield regulated infrastructures in Continental Europe, MCIF, has completed the purchase of a majority stake in (...)
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News ISEAL’s First Infrastructure Standard: SuRe® – The Standard for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure
Infrastructure development in cities is key to fighting climate change and fostering sustainable development. Cities need to become more inclusive, resilient and sustainable as stated by Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Number (...)
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Note Listed infrastructure is #fake_infra
EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra) shows that the booming listed infrastructure sector is based on a “fallacy of composition.” Listed infrastructure equity offers zero diversification benefits and is not an asset (...)
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News DWS Supports Drive Towards Climate Resilient Infrastructure Investments
DWS Group, along with more than 30 other institutions, supports the Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI). The goal of the CCRI is to transform infrastructure investments by integrating climate risks into the decision-making process, driving a paradigm shift (...)
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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 Aberdeen Standard Investments acquires Infravia Capital Partners’ stake in dutch gas pipeline
The Aberdeen Standard Investments infrastructure team has made a second investment in a gas pipeline and processing system. The team has acquired the InfraVia Capital Partners Managed Fund’s 20% interest in Noordgastransport (NGT) (...)
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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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News CNP Assurances and Meridiam announce the closing of the Meridiam Transition, a pioneering new fund specialized in long-term investments in the energy transition
Meridiam and CNP Assurances announced today the closing of the Meridiam Transition fund, with 425 million euros raised in six months from French institutional investors. This fund will finance and support infrastructure projects dedicated to environmental and energy (...)
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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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Innovation Global X Funds Announces Launch of U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (PAVE)
Designed to track the Indxx U.S. Infrastructure Development Index, the fund holds a basket of companies involved in the maintenance and development of infrastructure projects, including those involved in construction & engineering; the production of materials and (...)
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Innovation Natixis Asset Management launches a new area of expertise, real asset private debt
Natixis Asset Management launches a new area of expertise, real asset private debt, in three complementary, high potential sectors: real estate, infrastructure and aircraft...
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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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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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Note “There is no listed infrastructure asset class” : New EDHECinfra study finds no diversification benefits from 22 different proxies of listed infrastructure equity
EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra) has released a new paper entitled “Searching for a Listed Infrastructure Asset Class” establishing that listed infrastructure securities cannot be considered a unique asset (...)
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News The Paris financial marketplace reaffirms its specific expertise and leading position in infrastructure finance
In the wake of its report on infrastructure finance produced in 2016, Paris EUROPLACE - the organization in charge of promoting and developing the Paris financial marketplace - organized today, with the support of the French Treasury and of various European banks and (...)
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