Maintaining a good track record, resisting style drift and choosing the right partners are usually the boxes ticked to mitigate reputational risk. But with the rise of the #MeToo movement, industry stakeholders need to expand their horizons.
Macquarie coined it and Brookfield’s also minting it but expect others to latch on to this catchy moniker as the cycle turns.
The pool of investable assets is widening beyond renewables, as highlighted by Meridiam’s recent electric vehicle charging services deal.
The fact workplace diversity played a role in Chicago Teachers’ recent $50m infrastructure allocation underlines how important the issue is becoming to LPs.
InstarAGF president and chief executive Gregory Smith makes the case for bioenergy, explaining why its profile is ‘compelling’, both from an environmental and an economic perspective.
Partners Group’s Benjamin Haan, head of private infrastructure Asia-Pacific, and Andrew Kwok, senior vice-president, private infrastructure, Asia explain why half the firm’s renewables portfolio is based in the region.
Mirova head of renewable energy funds Raphael Lance talks about the firm’s core strategy, its commitment to the energy transition, and the sectors it finds exciting.
Michael Ebner, spokesman for the board of KGAL Investment Management, argues that, while buying well is important, managing well holds the key to creating long-term, sustainable value from assets.
Tobias Reichmuth, founder and chief executive of SUSI Partners, argues the energy transition value chain, where the Swiss firm has invested €1bn, is the perfect antidote to the current yield compression
Macquarie Capital’s John Walker called renewables Asia’s ‘investment opportunity of the century’. He’s right.