Coronavirus

AMP Capital, BlackRock, MIRA and Schroders share insights on how they are responding to the coronavirus pandemic.

As in the last major crisis, non-bank lenders will be expected to displace the banks as a source of finance.

Our senior editorial teams covering PE, private debt, infrastructure, real estate and secondaries discuss the latest in how private markets are responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Plus: ways firms are helping people out in the crisis.

The bill to privatise the French airport operator is unlikely to return even in the event of an economic turnaround.

Resilience and reliability are the short-term challenges as the pandemic puts high capacity workloads on the network’s edge. Longer term, investment opportunities abound.

Global air travel will not reset until Q1 or Q2 of 2021, the group said in a report.

As the asset class faces another period of volatility, it’s worth taking another look at whether it would be best served by longer-term or permanent capital structures.

A significant minority of 260 investors with combined AUM of more than $2.5trn say ‘we should have had more in private markets’ in a snap poll by bfinance.

Two European LPs have already defaulted on capital calls, and more are rumored, as LPs get hit with a one-two punch of large, often early capital calls and drying up distributions.