Daniel Kemp
-80x80.jpeg "Japan’s GPIF makes first direct infra commitment with $300m for Brookfield Fund V")
The world’s largest pension, GPIF, has committed a further $300m to co-investments alongside Brookfield Fund V.
In his first interview since taking up the role, QIC head of private debt Simon La Greca says investors have become increasingly attracted to infra debt as they seek stable returns.
Stonepeak's head of Asia Hajir Naghdy discusses how the firm is taking its global investment approach to Asia to take advantage of ‘multi-decade’ investment tailwinds.
Stonepeak is the latest major player to close a sizeable pan-Asia fund, having made six investments from the vehicle already.
The region is fulfilling its promise as both a viable target for dedicated strategies and an ever-growing source of LP capital.
Head of APAC infra David Luboff says the firm’s Asian infra strategy has played out ‘better than I could have ever hoped’.
With one of the world’s largest pools of institutional capital, Japan is perennially on managers’ radars. But now it is re-emerging as an attractive place to invest.
Head of real assets Subahoo Chordia says low returns from traditional asset classes have put investors ‘on the journey to looking at alternatives’.
KKR’s Asia Pacific Infrastructure Investors II is the largest regional fund raised to date, overtaking Macquarie Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Fund III, which itself took the crown from KKR’s first APAC vehicle.
Cabanes has departed alongside fellow director Deepak Malhotra, months after CDPQ India managing director Saurabh Agarwal also left.