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Investing for impact has risen up the agenda for many institutions with a rapid growth in allocations over recent years.
Autonomous vehicle
How the advent of autonomous vehicles could revolutionise transport infrastructure.
Sustainability, green energy, environment
Founder and CEO Thierry Déau says the manager has been focusing on social and environmental responsibility since inception, with ‘no contradiction between impact and good returns’.
Infrastructure Investor: The Decade
We review the asset class’s first 10 years, as ESG and customer service both took centre stage, in the first article from our special 10th anniversary issue.
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Wariness of fixed-price public-private partnerships could have wider implications since ‘a healthy PPP market needs a healthy construction sector’, warns market expert.
Cybersecurity, warfare
With cyber-warfare becoming the new weapon of mass destruction and infrastructure one of its main targets, infra investors need to be proactive, says Jeffrey Altman of Finadvice.
Wind farm Western Australia
Production tax credits for the US wind industry are set to expire at the end of the year, but research predicts this is unlikely to stop new projects from being built.
energy
There has been a structural shift in how LPs are allocating funds to energy-focused vehicles, moving away from upstream and paying closer attention to renewables and sustainable strategies.
A study by HEC Paris and MVision Private Equity Advisers finds that gender diverse investment committee teams outperform all-male teams across several industry metrics.
The country’s companies ‘are in reasonably good financial shape’, despite slowing economic conditions across the Asia-Pacific region, according to S&P Global Ratings’ Parvathy Iyer.
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