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Annesley Wallace will replace Berg as head of the C$109bn Canadian pension’s infrastructure group.

The Munich-based asset manager has deployed roughly 40% of the infrastructure equity fund – a hybrid vehicle that will invest in other funds, secondaries but also directly via co-investments.

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The manager has for now outbid Blackstone, which had partnered with Bill Gates’ Cascade Investments, Signature’s largest shareholder, to bid for the private aviation services firm.

The firm is understood to be in pre-marketing for the two vehicles, having launched its last European fund in 2016 and its Africa fund in 2015.

Carlyle, BlackRock and Blackstone are among several firms that have condemned the violent riots that took place at the Capitol earlier this week.

Blackstone and GIP’s interest in airport services firm Signature Aviation, as well as F2i’s acquisition of a private-jet hub in Sardinia, merit a closer look.

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The firm will also look to use the proceeds to continue to buy other GPs in the infrastructure and private equity space, chairman Bernard Fairman told us.

The move is the latest in the two-way flow of talent to and from the government and the private equity world.