The Latin America-focused firm, currently raising Fund III with a $500m target, has now exited all investments from its second energy fund.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The government said the fund will ‘act as a vehicle for attracting and channeling capital flows to critical infrastructure’. The fund is an initiative championed by newly installed President Goodluck Jonathan and will be seeded with revenues from the country’s oil and gas sector.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
Bank-affiliated infrastructure platforms dominate The Infrastructure Investor 30, a new annual ranking of industry players. Together the 30 largest infrastructure investment groups have formed $140.5bn of capital for the asset class over the past five years.
3 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm hired Rahman D’Argenio for its energy investment team in Short Hills, New Jersey. D’Argenio was previously a director at First Reserve.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
The New York City public pension system has terminated its $75m relationship with the Emerald Infrastructure Development Fund, a Northern Ireland-focused fund run by a rock salt company executive. The fund has since been dissolved, according to a spokesperson.
4 min read · 05 January 2013
The firm has re-hired Patrick Thomson to work with sovereign clients, many of whom increasingly want exposure to alternatives.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
For pensions looking to get into infrastructure, the inaugural ranking of the 30 largest infrastructure investors in the world – compiled by Infrastructure Investor magazine – shows that direct investing is the way to build a hefty investment programme in the asset class.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The Dutch pension's private equity portfolio returned 13.7% for H1 2010, up from 4.8% in the same period last year.
1 min read · 05 January 2013
JPMorgan Asset Management’s Global Maritime Investment Fund has secured $545m in commitments against a $750m fundraising target. The fund is expecting returns between 18% to 20%, the ‘majority ‘of which will come in the form of current income, according a fund executive.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
The private equity firm will take a preferred interest in Houston-based Copano Energy, which will fund an expansion project in the Eagle Ford Shale.
2 min read · 05 January 2013
