Institutional Investing in Infrastructure

September 1, 2017: Vol. 10, Number 8

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Infrastructure

CIP holds €1.9b third close on infrastructure fund

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, a fund management company focused on energy infrastructure, has held a third close on its new fund Copenhagen Infrastructure III (CI III), raising €1.9 billion ($42.18 billion) in total equity commitments.

Infrastructure

Investing for resilience: Long-lived infrastructure assets need to be built with an eye on the horizon

Investing in infrastructure assets have always been about the long term. But how can investors ensure their investments outlive the realities of climate change and environmental external forces?

Infrastructure

H1/17 first look: Less than $3 billion raised by infra funds reaching final close Q2/17

Someone should put together a thesaurus that provides a variety of phrases to say the same thing, rather than just synonyms for single words. If I had such a collection, I’d look up a new way to say, “Data from the first half of 2017 confirms that the infrastructure asset class continues to be dominated by fewer and larger funds.” I’m running out of ways to say that infrastructure investment capital is getting more concentrated in the hands of just a few managers with each passing quarter.

Infrastructure

U.K. infrastructure investment and finance: A European and global perspective

This study provides an overview of the financing of infrastructure investment in the United Kingdom in a European, global and historical context. It evaluates the structure and development of private infrastructure finance in the United Kingdom, and makes comparisons with other advanced economies in the European Union and the “G7+” (i.e., the G7 countries plus Australia). This broad, international perspective on a country at a critical point in its history yields useful insights for both policy makers and investors.

Infrastructure

The power of water: Successful renewable energy investment in small hydropower

Although wind and photovoltaics are today’s poster children for renewable energy, hydropower has been around for a much longer time and now boasts plants that have been operating reliably for over 100 years, some of them with original equipment. Run-of-river hydropower plants on streams with good hydrologic characteristics can achieve a plant capacity factor on the order of 70 percent, as opposed to values in the vicinity of 20 percent for solar.

Infrastructure

CIMIC’s CPB Contractors preferred for metro tunnel rail systems

CIMIC Group’s company, CPB Contractors, has been selected by the Victorian Government as the preferred proponent, with Bombardier Transportation, to deliver the Metro Tunnel Project Rail Systems Alliance with the Melbourne Metro Rail Authority and Metro Trains Melbourne.