To observe the success possible with public-private infrastructure arrangements, look to Canada. Chris Glynn sat down with a panel of veteran infrastructure investment personnel to discuss one of the premier markets for the asset class
10 min read · 15 February 2013
The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation has agreed to underwrite £1bn of loans sourced by London-based Laxfield Capital.
2 min read · 11 February 2013
The New York-based retirement fund is looking to enter the senior real estate debt arena in Europe, building a team first in the UK and before expanding into continental Europe.
2 min read · 11 February 2013
Market participants are urging European regulators to reassess CLO rules, which they believe have barred new CLOs being raised since the credit crisis.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Standard & Poor’s estimates private debt sources – what it calls ‘shadow banking’ – can provide up to $25bn of project finance loans this year. However, it warns its ‘opaque nature’ carries certain risks.
2 min read · 07 February 2013
The volume of non-bank lending into Europe has been described as “extraordinary” in a recent report gauging attitudes towards the European distressed debt space, which suffered a difficult year as the expected wave of restructurings failed to materialise.
3 min read · 07 February 2013
The UK Coalition government has made no shortage of announcements on infrastructure, but how good are the ideas and how much progress have they made? Opposition Labour MP John Healey gives his verdict
8 min read · 15 February 2013
The insurance company is providing a 30-year, fixed rate tranche as part of a €100m loan put together by Natixis for a French prisons PPP. The deal is the first from a €2bn debt partnership between the French bank and Ageas, signed last October.
2 min read · 14 February 2013
In its second such deal, the UK pension fund is providing £95m of 20-year class B inflation-linked financing to Affinity Water, owned by Infracapital and Morgan Stanley.
2 min read · 07 February 2013
Southern Europe continues to face huge economic challenges – challenges so great that they may yet bring down the entire Eurozone. But although investing within the region is more difficult than ever before, local managers say there are still good deals to be found
9 min read · 15 February 2013
