By George Ralph, RFA – As many firms in the alternative investment sector, and certainly many of our clients, look for new ways to improve investment strategies and drive efficiencies in their businesses, against a backdrop of strict regulations and compliance requirements, investment in technology and innovation continues to rise.
The Bank of England has raised interest rates by a quarter point to 0.5 per cent, the first interest rate rise in a decade. Commenting on the decision, Andrew Fowkes, Head of Retail Centre of Excellence, SAS UK & Ireland says: “Today’s decision to increase interest rates will be felt
The infrastructure market saw 365 deals announced in Q3 2017, worth a combined USD88 billion. Preqin expects these totals to rise by around 5 per cent as more information becomes available. However, this already surpasses the USD55 billion in deal value seen in Q2, reversing the slowdown seen through the
CIBC Asset Management has launched the CIBC Long-Term Private Debt Pool, a product for institutional investors focused on unrated private securities in the infrastructure and power sectors. The pool was designed for investors seeking contracted cash flows that align with their liabilities and offers the potential for an enhanced
BNY Mellon Investment Management is to sell the business of real assets investment boutique CenterSquare Investment Management to its management team and the private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners. Founded in 1987 and headquartered near Philadelphia, CenterSquare Investment Management has approximately USD9 billion in assets under management in US and
Modern Energy Management (MEM), a specialist in delivering project lifecycle certainty to renewable energy developers, financiers and investors, is to carry out marine warranty surveying (MWS) services at Indonesia’s first utility-scale wind project, Sidrap Wind Farm, on behalf of GCube Underwriting Ltd (GCube). Under the terms of the agreement, MEM
LRI Group, an independent investment services company, has appointed Bastian Dittrich as Global Head of Business Development Real Assets, to support the growth of the Real Assets team alongside the wider LRI Group business. Dittrich’s newly created role will help to strengthen the positioning and increase the footprint of LRI
Global Jet Capital, a provider of financing solutions for corporate aircraft, believes more private equity firms and hedge funds are considering entering the business aviation finance sector to diversify their portfolios and reduce their exposure to equities and bonds and any potential market correction. The company also believes that the
MPC Renewable Energies, a subsidiary of international investment manager MPC Capital, along with the project developer Ferrostaal, the Danish Climate Investment Fund (DCIF) and other project partners, has achieved financial closing for the Sainshand 55 MW onshore windpark in Mongolia, for USD120 million. The lenders have agreed to provide a
Quaero Capital’s recently re-named Infrastructure strategy, refocused from a wider Real Assets mandate, is now entirely concentrated on infrastructure stocks, with just a 3 per cent cash provision. The largest exposures are toll roads and tunnels (17 per cent), diversified infrastructure companies (16 per cent), and rail & bus (16
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