Eduard Fernandez

Through this initiative, the multilateral development bank is aiming to promote infrastructure as an asset class, develop debt capital markets for infrastructure and promote ESG in emerging Asia.

The hunt for strategies pursuing more than 70% of investments in OECD countries comes less than a year after the Korean investor announced a $500m mandate.

Higher returns and high growth rates are pushing investors to explore the region, that has become one of the hotspots for green energy investment.

When one of the country’s biggest groups ran into financial trouble, the country braced itself for a market-wide crisis. Two months later, market observers describe the episode as a new step towards a more professional infrastructure sector. Eduard Fernández reports.

The new office will launch and manage the Asia Energy Transition Fund, focused on investments in Southeast Asian countries.

The South Korean public pension fund has increased its AUM exposure to the asset class from 5% to nearly 7% during 2018.

CIO Jang Dong-hun is concerned these investments might prove harder to exit, expresses a preference for publicly regulated assets and recalls a bad experience with crematoriums in Korea.

Two weeks after putting its renewables portfolio up for sale, the developer is looking to divest its roads business, as it works towards a restructuring plan.

The hubs are in major cities and have seen double-digit growth in the past five years.

The troubled company is also putting on the block under-construction wind assets with a total capacity of 104MW.