Infrastructure debt

Moving to green energy will need huge sums of capital. Private lenders are well placed to marry institutional money to vital projects. John Bakie reports

The deal will add real estate and infrastructure debt to Sienna’s growing alternative assets platform.

Project Finance Exchange (PFX) chairman David Rose asks if it is time to self-regulate – before someone does it on the industry’s behalf.

Permanent funds, infrastructure debt, insurance tie-ups, private credit marketplaces and sustainability-linked loans.

Perpetual assets under management increased 70% year over year to nearly $200bn across 16 unique vehicles, president Jonathan Gray shared on Thursday’s earnings call.

Private markets are typically viewed as a below investment-grade ‘alternative asset’, but we believe the investment-grade component of private debt provides interesting advantages, say MetLife Investment Management’s Nigel Murdoch, Jennifer Potenta and John Tanyeri.

Iryna Voronova joins the firm from Siemens Financial Services and will focus on growing its newly launched credit offering.

Once considered a niche by both infra and private debt investors, infra debt has become an important part of how LPs allocate.