Matthieu Favas
Javier Pérez Fortea replaces Juan Béjar at the helm of the Spanish investor, shortly after the company successfully completed its €750m fundraising process.
Infrastructure Investor’s Annual Awards are going great guns – with many categories still too close to call.
The pledge by the country’s largest insurer follows the wider industry’s commitment to invest £25bn in the sector over the next five years.
The $82bn Future Fund has rejected claims from AustralianSuper, the country's biggest superannuation fund, that it had knowingly overpaid for a stake in Perth airport.
The DFIs, along with local lender Turkiye Is Bankasi, are investing $268m in the country’s first trans-shipment hub.
The £47.8m project, also backed by Balfour Beatty, Eternity Capital Management, GCP and Carbonarius, will produce enough electricity to supply 17,000 homes.
Although players in Australia essentially pioneered infrastructure debt, the asset class is not drawing institutional investor interest in the country as quickly as it is overseas.
The toll road business, for which the Australian asset manager paid more than $3bn in 2011, could have a new owner by April next year.
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The French fund manager’s acquisition comes less than a day after Borealis and First State bought the country’s largest power distribution network for €2.55bn.
Fortum, the country’s largest utility, is now looking to sell its Swedish and Norwegian distribution units.