Stefano Berra

2 weeks ago | ionanalytics.com | Stefano Berra |Brendan Malkin |Rouhan Sharma

News (Intelligence) UBS Asset Management is seeking to sell its direct infrastructure equity and debt investment business, which has recently grappled with senior departures and slow fundraising. The Swiss group earlier this year started a process overseen internally by its own bankers to find a buyer for the unit, which has around USD 6.6bn of assets under management, said sources familiar with the situation.

2 weeks ago | ionanalytics.com | Nick Roumpis |Brendan Malkin |Stefano Berra |Lloyd Vassell

The sale by Tetragon Financial Group of its majority stake in Equitix is in its final round with mainly US investors targeting the UK infrastructure fund manager. Sources said that at least four investors, comprising Franklin Templeton, Barings, Prudential and alternative asset manager Hunter Point Capital (HPC), have been involved in the final bidding round in recent weeks.

3 weeks ago | ionanalytics.com | Stefano Berra |Rouhan Sharma

News (Intelligence) KKR Infrastructure is competing against real estate investors to buy Brookfield’s EUR 1.3bn Spanish student accommodation company Livensa Living. KKR has been shortlisted for the final round of an auction that was launched by Brookfield at the beginning of the year and is considering investing via its infrastructure arm, said sources familiar with the situation.

1 month ago | ionanalytics.com | Antonio Fabrizio |Stefano Berra |Edith Leung

News (Intelligence) OPTrust has launched the sale of its 40% stake in Spanish transport group Globalvia, with several high-profile bidders mulling placing non-binding offers, said sources familiar with the situation. Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has tapped Jefferies to advise it on a bid ahead of a deadline on 27 March, and is seen as one of the frontrunners for the auction, according to the sources.

2 months ago | ionanalytics.com | Talya Misiri |Stefano Berra |Edith Leung

News (Intelligence) A Chinese-led breakthrough in AI development has caused some nervousness about data centre investment, but demand is still on the rise and some investors could benefit more than others. Among infrastructure investors, much of the initial attention around the ground-breaking AI model developed by China’s DeepSeek has focused on how it might reduce opportunities to deploy capital into large-scale data centres.