Stephen Dowd joined the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan after a career in banking. As head of an C$8.7bn portfolio dedicated to investing directly in infrastructure, he chatted with Chris Glynn about that enviable and distinctly Canadian innovation: managing a public pension like a private business.
8 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
The firm announced in December the hiring of former Blackstone executive Sal Gentile to head its North American efforts and is adding to the US-based team.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The European Union-focused fund manager has acquired 22.5% of the 288-megawatt Butendiek project. Danish pensions Industriens Pension and PKA, plus Germany’s Siemens Financial Services, have also purchased 22.5% stakes.
2 min read · 15 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
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
Mark DeNatale and Scott Bynum have been reunited with former colleague Steve Hickey at CVC Credit Partners, the debt arm of buyout group CVC, after leaving Goldman Sachs.
2 min read · 08 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
