Growth Markets

The CI New Markets fund, launched earlier this year and attracting European investors from Scandinavia, Germany and Austria, is the Danish firm's first to target emerging markets.

OPIC’s David Bohigian explains how Blue Dot Network, a multilateral initiative backed by the US, Australia and Japan, will establish best practices that will serve ‘as a seal of approval on project excellence’.

The fund manager will use its hands-on approach to expand into developing economies, vice-chairman Jim Yong Kim said.

Panellists say financing renewable projects is becoming more difficult due to slowing economic growth in the country.

JIDA Capital Partners is in talks with potential anchor investors to start raising the vehicle alone during the first quarter of next year.

The organisation will also consider co-investing an additional $50m alongside the fund on a deal-by-deal basis.

Should Andhra Pradesh - a state at the forefront of the renewables sector in the country - succeed in slashing tariffs, projects with a capacity of more than 2.5GW are at risk of defaulting.

Based in Seoul, Keith Kim has joined the team led by another Macquarie veteran David Luboff.

Philippine energy producer AboitizPower is aiming to expand its portfolio of renewable energy assets in South-East Asia.

The asset manager will target core assets in developing countries and core-plus deals in developed markets.