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The $17trn infra opportunity investors have overlooked

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... by 41% by 2030 and the supply of water finite, water is expected to be one of the largest recipients of global infrastructure investment in the coming decades. The water opportunity consists of a collection of niche companies that are involved in some ...

AMP Capital takes majority stake in Angel Trains

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2015
... transaction for AMP Capital's Infrastructure Equity team. Angel Trains is the largest asset held by AMP Capital's Global Infrastructure Fund, which was launched in October 2014. The fund achieved its first close earlier in the year and fundraising has ...

Magellan adds infrastructure specialist

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Magellan Financial Group has appointed a senior portfolio manager to its global infrastructure team. Stephen Mentzines joins the fund manager from ASX-listed Sydney Airport, where he was chief financial officer. Before that he was with Macquarie Group ...

Magellan doubles profit, boosts FUM

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... 24.6% of the MSCI World NTR Index. The Magellan Infrastructure Fund returned 12.3% compared to 7.5% of the Global Infrastructure Benchmark, while returns for the High Conviction Strategy were 31.9%. Douglass attributed the strong performance to high ...

QIC raises $1 billion for infrastructure fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
QIC has raised $1 billion in new capital for its unlisted Global Infrastructure Fund (QGIF), reaching roughly 50% of its target. Investors in the fund include Hostplus as well as "an Asian sovereign wealth fund, one of China's leading insurers and two ...

Fidante buys UK alternatives manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... in London. The buyout of Dexion Capital Holdings adds to Fidante's other UK-based managers, which include global infrastructure investor Whitehelm Capital and asset-backed security specialist WyeTree Asset Management. Challenger will make a payment of ...

Infrastructure returns beat equities, bonds

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
Global infrastructure returns outperformed bonds and equities in the year to Q1 2015. This is based on MSCI's Global Quarterly Infrastructure Asset Index, which shows global infrastructure returned 18.1%. This compares favourably to MSCI's global indices ...

Frydenberg outlines tax changes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... and was designed for vastly different economic and social circumstances" - and further subsidies for the Global Infrastructure Hub, such as ensuring contributions from "a number of sources" will not be subject to income tax. Finally, as reported in Financial ...

4 Corners hires ahead of infrastructure fund launch

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... appointed a senior equity analyst to build out the manager's research capabilities ahead of the launch of a global infrastructure fund in the second half of 2015. Mark Jones joins from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he was a buy-side equity analyst ...

Super pool reducing Aussie reliance on foreign capital: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... ASFA also recently welcomed the appointment of Christopher Heathcote as inaugural chief executive of the Global Infrastructure Hub. The hub will be reporting to the G20 and will work with stakeholders around the globe to drive progress on the G20's infrastructure ...