At a media gathering today, Macquarie Infrastructure Partners Chief Executive Chris Leslie said the US has plenty of reasons to be optimistic about private investment in infrastructure, even as obstacles remain to the market’s development.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The firm, led by managing partner Robin Doumar, received commitments from pensions, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds in Europe, Asia and North America.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
The fund is understood to be targeting between $100m and $150m to invest in venture enterprises in India’s microfinance sector.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Security Properties seeks to raise $50 million for investments in the Western US.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Blackstone’s $10.9 billion mega fund is roughly 90 percent invested in the wake of its $9.4bn acquisition of Centro Properties’ US assets. Was the mega deal evidence of a rush to close the fund or Blackstone simply exerting its unrivalled equity muscle yet again? PERE magazine April 2011 issue
5 min read · 15 January 2013
The mega-deals struck in the boom period of 2005 to 2007 look set to confound the critics and outperform the market, writes Skandia Life’s head of buyouts, Adalbjorn Stefansson.
5 min read · 15 January 2013
GPs that rose with the credit bubble and fell when it burst, and that are coming to market this year to raise funds, are unlikely to gain the kind of support necessary to hit their targets, writes Christopher Witkowsky.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Several firms have successfully attracted capital from limited partners in an uncertain fundraising environment. Success in closing their funds on or above target – in relatively short periods of time – has to do with several factors, but the common denominator is always performance. Here, we look at a few of the groups finding favour with limited partners. Christopher Witkowsky reports
7 min read · 15 January 2013
The private investment arm of the World Bank group has helped mobilize $679m in loans to fund a $908m port container terminal in Brazil. The deal is the IFC’s largest port investment and its biggest syndication to date.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
The bank's investment is a significant contribution toward the first close of the Aviva-backed subordinated debt fund. The close scheduled to take place during the first half of the year, according to chief executive Marc Bajer.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
