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The fund being raised by CCB International aims to bridge the health inequality gap between the country’s urban and rural populations.

Staff reshuffles and structural changes, including the consolidation of the firm's funds management activities, aim to make the manager of the Challenger Infrastructure Fund more efficient and better able to develop growth opportunities.

Two hydro projects will provide Uganda with more power ahead of the construction of a much bigger generation facility.

The NZ$400m sale will help manager Babcock & Brown reduce its corporate debt, after plummeting shares prices wiped out the value of its equity assets during the first eight months of this year.

Archer’s first offer to de-list MYOB in January was rejected as too low at A$1.90 per share; the current offer is for A$1.15 per share.

The investment firm has acquired a majority stake in the Dubai-based business and intends to expand it regionally.

Earlier this month, the pension fund struck similar deals with private equity firms, Oaktree Capital and MBK Partners.

Part of a larger expansion strategy into infrastructure, Dunia Wright, head of US and Europe for IFM, predicts that the Melbourne-based asset manager will have about 40 infrastructure professionals globally by the end of the year.

The Indian company has reportedly bought a 30 percent stake on JB Pharma’s special economic zone, a future hub for pharmaceutical manufacturing, for $15m. The deal was made through the $525m ILFS India Realty Fund I.

Ashok Ramaswami will lead a newly hired team as the Dubai-based private equity firm deploys its first India-focused fund of funds, which makes private equity, real estate and infrastructure investments.