Foresight Group invests in pumped storage hydro project in Ireland by Kali Persall | Nov 2, 2023 Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners (FEIP), Foresight Group’s energy transition fund, is backing the development of a new pumped storage hydro project in Ireland.
DC BLOX acquires 55 acres for $1.2b investment by Released | Nov 2, 2023 DC BLOX, a provider of connected data centers and dark fiber solutions across the Southeast, has announced the recent purchase and commencement of construction of a data center campus in Douglasville, Ga.
QIC founding partner Matina Papathanasiou joins United Nations Risk Reduction Investment Advisory Board by Kali Persall | Nov 2, 2023 Matina Papathanasiou, a founding partner of QIC Global Infrastructure, has taken up a board member position on the United Nations Risk Reduction Investment Advisory Board for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) in recent months.
Veld Capital divests education infrastructure assets in India by Kali Persall | Nov 1, 2023 Veld Capital, a private credit and real estate specialist investor, has announced the portfolio sale of its education infrastructure assets in India to a large international private equity investor.
GLIL snaps up stake in U.K.’s largest mobile towers business, Cornerstone by Kali Persall | Nov 1, 2023 GLIL, a partnership of U.K. pension funds focused on infrastructure investment opportunities, is acquiring a minority stake in Cornerstone, the United Kingdom’s largest mobile towers business, from Virgin Media O2.
Bernhard Capital Partners to acquire Entergy’s gas distribution business for $484m in cash by Kali Persall | Nov 1, 2023 Bernhard Capital Partners has agreed to pay $484 million in cash for Entergy’s gas distribution business.
Princeton University’s endowment yields 1.7% loss for fiscal year by Lewis Dayton | Nov 1, 2023 Princeton University’s endowment, valued at $34.1 billion, reported a 1.7 percent investment loss for the fiscal year that ended June 30.
Leap of faith: Trust and tenacity will be key to keeping pace with the energy transition by Kali Persall | Nov 1, 2023 The clean energy universe is expanding rapidly, opening the doors to emerging subasset classes such as hydrogen, battery storage, renewable natural gas and carbon-capture. While this is creating significant investment opportunities for some, a sort of leap of faith will be required of others — and time is of the essence.
Water works: Private capital is stepping in to address the substantial global need for investment in water infrastructure by Beth Mattson-Teig | Nov 1, 2023 Water is an asset that has been taken for granted historically. In addition, water industry economics tend to be less understood by investors compared with the fundamental economic models of many other industries. That picture is changing because of the massive amounts of capital needed globally to solve problems around the freshwater supply.
SPONSORED: Ridgewood Infrastructure — Building mutually beneficial strategic partnerships in the lower-middle market by Jennifer Babcock | Nov 1, 2023 The infrastructure investment market has evolved in two key ways: (1) It has attracted a great deal of capital, causing many managers to have large fund sizes that seek larger and larger companies to invest in, and (2) investors have grown more sophisticated and deliberate about how they invest strategically in infrastructure.