Better than expected portfolio growth propelled John Laing Infrastructure Fund to success in its first year as a publicly-traded business. The fund garnered an additional £157m in capital.
1 min read · 15 January 2013
The opportunistic and distressed real estate investment firm has acquired an unfinished residential community in Tennessee, with an expected value of about $750 million, from the bankruptcy trustee.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
The $10bn Russian state-backed vehicle and a consortium of investors have acquired a stake in energy company Enel OGK-5, in a deal potentially worth $750m.
2 min read · 14 January 2013
Silver Lake has added venture debt specialist and Lighthouse Capital Partners co-founder Rick Stubblefield to the oversight committee of its recently launched $75m fund.
1 min read · 14 January 2013
‘Specialist fund of funds’ may sound like a contradiction in terms – but lurking in the shadows of the the global multi-manager platforms are a lesser known group of players executing niche strategies.
4 min read · 14 January 2013
The UK’s National Audit Office believes drawn-out procurement processes and minimum investor rates of return are not synchronised with projects’ risk profiles and may have inflated PFI equity returns over the years.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
Assured Guaranty’s recent UK hospital deal signalled the monoline’s return to the infrastructure market. European head Dominic Nathan sat down with Bruno Alves to talk about the firm’s plans and why he sees his firm as providing one of the top five alternative debt solutions going forward.
6 min read · 15 January 2013
Progress is steady rather than spectacular, but the Central Asian and South Caucasus region is starting to open up to infrastructure developers and investors. Stephen Wermert of the Asian Development Bank explains some of the opportunities and pitfalls.
6 min read · 15 January 2013
With Pennsylvania steeped in fiscal morass, an internet lobby group is pressing a methodical governor to get cracking on public-private partnership legislation.
2 min read · 15 January 2013
Secondary platforms are helping smaller investors to engage with this burgeoning market. However, some GPs are concerned about the potential risks. By Sam Sutton
3 min read · 15 January 2013
