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Michael Ryder, who previously worked for Blackstone Energy Partners, will help the Canadian pension seek opportunities in the energy sector.

Islamic finance has been rapidly growing, but Muslim-majority countries are still facing some of the world’s worst infrastructure shortfalls.

Global Infrastructure co-founder Matina Papathanasiou talks about the manager’s audacious first fund, its forward-looking approach and why infrastructure is losing out by not employing more women.

According to public pension documents, Blackstone is seeking to raise $7.5bn of equity over a nine-month period, which will be matched with money from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund.

Emma Haight-Cheng, AMP Capital’s European head of infrastructure debt, finds the emerging infra sector is heating up.

A survey by the asset manager shows institutional investors intend to reallocate to private markets, with interest in active management strategies to help mitigate market risks.

The new government says it will ‘consider opening’ its $1trn sovereign wealth fund to unlisted infrastructure investments.

Industry veteran Jesús Olmos, who joined the private equity firm a decade ago, is leaving at the end of April.

The Canadian asset manager is in talks with Saeta Yield, the 1.1GW Spanish ‘yieldco’, which recently made its first investments outside its home country as part of its expansion strategy.

Joint-venture partners will take over the contractor’s role, while the UK government will bring some public sector contracts in-house.