Strategy

I Squared Capital’s co-founder has told Infrastructure Investor that Asia’s natural gas sector is a more attractive opportunity than renewables, after announcing the sale of Singapore-based solar company Amplus Energy Solutions. Gautam Bhandari said he was “very happy with the result” of I Squared’s investment in Amplus, which the firm sold this month to Malaysian […]

French energy management company Schneider Electric has agreed to a partnership with The Carlyle Group to provide sustainability and automation upgrades to infrastructure projects. Andrew Marino, co-head of the US private equity firm’s Global Infrastructure Opportunity Fund, said the move was both an efficiency effort and a means of ensuring that current and future investments […]

Taking its motives at face value, there is no obvious reason for the Government Pension Fund Global not to invest across the wider infra universe.

KIC chairman Heenam Choi explains why the sovereign wealth fund is looking to invest in alternative asset classes.

Declan O’Brien and Alex Leung of UBS Asset Management’s infrastructure research and strategy division argue that the asset class will continue to be resilient in the face of market volatility.

DPFP slashes its target allocation from 5% to zero, despite the asset class generating the highest returns over the past three years and since it was introduced into the fund.

Private equity investors focus only on very simple negotiating points such as fees and structure, according to a survey by eFront.

Erik Savi’s exit is accelerating the combination of infrastructure and real estate debt into a single platform, a plan that was already in the works.

Following the success of its sterling-denominated fund that has raised £1bn to date, the London-based firm is launching a similar vehicle that will be available to the broader European market.

The placement agent and advisory firm is among the first to announce a new office opening as part of its Brexit contingency plans.