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Actis to launch Latin America toll roads platform with acquisition of 416km Colombian portfolio
LUXEMBOURG, 10 June 2025: Actis, a leading growth markets investor in sustainable infrastructure, has entered into an agreement to acquire a portfolio of operational toll roads in Colombia from Sacyr with a total transaction value of US$1.6 billion. The investments will come from Actis’ Long Life Infrastructure Fund 2 (ALLIF2) and mark the launch of Actis’ first Latin American toll roads platform.
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White papers
Exchange rate predictability in Emerging Markets
This paper uses financial and macroeconomic variables to predict currency returns, by using a two-step procedure. The first step consists of a cointegration equation that explains the exchange rate level as a function of global and domestic financial factors. The second step estimates an error-correction equation, for modeling the expected returns. This approach is a factor model analysis, where a Lasso derived technique is used for variable selection.
