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One firm took fund manager and equity fundraising of the year, while another took the digital infrastructure firm and deal of the year titles.
Even in a year of unprecedented challenges, the number of investors seeking to allocate to infrastructure debt remained high.
AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets takes the tops spot in the Infrastructure Debt 20 ranking, having raised more than $14bn.
From New York to London via Paris. Numbers 11 to 20 in our Infrastructure Debt 20 ranking have raised in excess of $21bn.
Institutional lenders have clear advantages to offer borrowers; the onus to educate the market is on them, says Alessandro Merlo of UBS Asset Management.
Future generations will judge us on the decisions we are making now, says the CEO of Austrian infrastructure bank Kommunalkredit, Bernd Fislage.
Risk, by its very nature, is hard to predict, and has not always been accurately reflected in the pricing and structuring of deals, says Alexander Waller, head of infrastructure debt at Whitehelm Capital.
The asset class is adding bulk, both in terms of the sectors it targets and the types of financing it can offer to borrowers, says Karen Azoulay, head of infrastructure debt at BNP Paribas Asset Management.
Asset managers that deployed through 2020 are in an enhanced negotiating position to optimise terms, says BRIDGE CIO, global head of infrastructure, real assets and structured finance and EdR UK CEO Jean-Francis Dusch.
The global pandemic has allowed infrastructure debt to prove its resilience credentials beyond all doubt, says head of infrastructure debt at Natixis Investment Managers, Céline Tercier.