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Listed infrastructure: a missing piece in your portfolio
Investing in essential service providers, which are integral to our daily lives, results in unique investment characteristics that can diversify your portfolio across market cycles. The defensive growth profile of the asset class complements equities, fixed income, and private infrastructure. Integrating GLI into a traditional 60/40 portfolio by substituting 10% of equities holds the potential to provide similar returns while lowering overall portfolio risk.
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Standing proud! 2024 GRESB Real Estate and Infrastructure Assessments
UBS Asset Management, Real Estate & Private Markets’ (REPM) sustainability efforts continue to build momentum with another set of strong results in the 2024 GRESB Real Estate and Infrastructure Assessments.
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Not all net zero pathways are created equal: Pivotal questions for investors to ask
Improving real estate’s sustainability profile is pivotal to addressing climate change, as the sector contributes some 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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PtX Development Fund by KfW and KGAL makes first contribution to Egyptian hydrogen project
The PtX Development Fund for the promotion of hydrogen projects in developing and emerging economies has approved its first grant: Egypt Green Hydrogen (EGH) will receive €30 million for a hydrogen project in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone), the largest industrial cluster in Egypt. Prior to this, KGAL Investment Management GmbH & Co KG, the fund manager mandated by KfW, had intensively reviewed a total of 98 applications from seven countries.
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Why institutional investors are turning to data centres
The data centre industry is experiencing explosive demand growth driven by expanding use of technology and structural shifts in how data is consumed.
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KGAL ESPF 5 acquires wind farm in south-west Germany
Leading independent investment and asset manager KGAL is pleased to announce that its renewable energy fund KGAL ESPF 5 has successfully bid for three wind turbines from BayWa r.e. The wind farm, located in Reichenbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, has a total capacity of 18.6 megawatts (MW) and is nearing completion. KGAL is planning further acquisitions in Germany and the Czech Republic for its impact fund, which will have its final close in October 2024.
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Potential Regulatory Risks and Opportunities for Energy Infrastructure Following the 2024 U.S. Federal Elections
The US is at a crossroads ahead of one of the closest contested presidential elections in years. This election has repercussions for every sector of the world’s largest economy and could create significant change depending on whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris are elected to the White House. Potential impact to the energy infrastructure sector has come into focus during the presidential campaign after historic levels of investment under the Biden administration.
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The mid-market opportunity: accessing the decarbonisation and digitalisation tailwinds
In June 2024, the United Nations released its latest report emphasising the critical need for increased investments in new infrastructure to meet global climate goals.1
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KGAL ESPF 6 participates in the development of one of Europe’s most important hydrogen hubs
Leading independent investment and asset manager KGAL announces that the KGAL ESPF 6 Energy Transition Fund is investing in a green hydrogen project at Lubmin, a Baltic Sea port in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, with a total capacity of up to 1,050 megawatts. This project is part of Germany’s largest planned centre for the production and import of green hydrogen, with Europe-wide significance. KGAL’s investment has excellent prospects, as the location offers immense strategic advantages and the project is being driven forward by experienced specialists. KGAL has partnered with project initiator PtX Development GmbH and project planner GP JOULE, the German green energy specialist.
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What It Takes to Catalyze the Transition in Emerging Markets
The best way to experience the Bhadla solar park region is from the air. Through a plane window high above the Thar Desert in northwestern India, theexpanse of photovoltaic panels appears suddenly out of the rolling dunes, shimmering in the afternoon sun like an inland sea.
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What makes infrastructure debt attractive? An interesting time to invest?
According to Viktor Kozel, Head of Infrastructure Debt, now is the optimal time to consider infrastructure debt given the huge amount of investment needed to support demographic change, decarbonization, deglobalization and digitalization.
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The IHA 2024/25 finalists at a glance
The International High-Rise Award is aimed at architects and developers whose buildings are at least 100 meters high and have been completed in the past two years. The jury evaluates the nominated projects with the criteria: future-oriented design, functionality, innovative building technology, integration into urban development schemes, sustainability and cost-effectiveness.
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International High-Rise Award 2024/25 Projects from three continents in the final for the world’s best high-rise
The finalists of this year’s International High-Rise Award (IHA) have been determined. The jury selected five buildings from Asia, Europe and South America from a total of 31 nominated high-rise buildings from 13 countries. Alongside the wealth of aesthetic and technical ideas, the jury also based its assessment of the respective project on its social value as a “good neighbor”, its sustainable characteristics, and whether it featured a good design with a strong future.
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Actis invests in world’s largest integrated renewables and energy storage project in the Philippines
Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, has agreed to enter a strategic partnership with Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and its subsidiary, Solar Philippines New Energy Corporation, to invest in the Terra Solar Project, poised to be the world’s largest integrated renewables and energy storage project.
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Transforming urbanization
Urbanization promises greater prosperity for an increasing share of the world’s population. And yet it historically is associated with widened income inequality and degrading the natural environment.
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Actis JV with Mahindra Lifespaces, Ample Parks, launches and makes first acquisition
Actis, a leading global investor in sustainable infrastructure, and Mahindra Lifespaces, the real estate and infrastructure development arm of the Mahindra Group, have formally launched joint venture Ample Parks, an Indian industrial and logistics real estate developer and operator.
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Who are the world’s largest impact capital managers? The 2024 Impact 50 list revealed
The Impact 50 is our proprietary list of the world’s largest managers of private markets impact capital, spanning private equity, venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, private debt and other strategies.
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Deka Immobilien sells logistics portfolio in Italy
DIE Italy SICAF S.p.A. managed by IQ EQ Fund Management Limited for Deka Immobilien Investment GmbH has sold a logistics portfolio from the real estate assets of the Deka-ImmobilienEuropa open-ended property fund. The buyer is an international investor. The parties have agreed not to disclose the sale price.