Australia

The appointment comes less than two months after Dylan Foo resigned as AMP Capital’s head of infrastructure equity in the Americas and was succeeded by Simon Ellis.

Infrastructure Partnerships Australia found just 49% of respondents saw ‘compelling’ investment opportunities in Australia, leading to a growing preference for unregulated and core-plus assets.

Pollination will focus solely on the energy transition through advisory services it will provide to governments and policy makers and its investment arm, which will seek to raise $4bn.

Undertakings by ANZ Terminals to divest a facility in South Australia and to exclude a facility at Port Kembla from the deal alleviates competition concerns, the competition watchdog said.

Representatives from Hyundai Insurance and China Ping An Insurance said proof of a manager’s skill will come during the next downturn.

The project marks the beginning of the Swiss fund manager’s partnership with Perth-based Starling Energy, a manager of distributed energy assets.

The combined entity would have more than A$180bn of AUM and be larger than the country’s current largest fund, AustralianSuper.

IFM chief executive Brett Himbury says deals at such a large scale see ‘improved’ risk-return dynamics compared with others at a lower ticket.

he new CEFC-administered Grid Reliability Fund follows an academic report that found the federal government should facilitate investment in transmission infrastructure to ensure emissions continue to fall.

Murra Warra’s second phase could fetch a significantly higher price than that paid by Partners Group for phase one in 2018, amid high demand for renewables assets.