Razak Musah Baba
Raz joined the IPE editorial team in 2017 as news editor of IPE Real Assets. He has 15 years of experience as a financial journalist, having worked for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal where he worked as an equities reporter covering corporate news.
He later covered consumer finance and moved on to become a leisure reporter and helped manage the London corporate news and small-cap desk.
Aside from real estate and infrastructure, he enjoys discussing African traditional religion and historiography.
Contact info
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- +44 (0)20 3465 9300
- Email:
- razak.baba@ipe.com
- News
Fundraising for Brookfield’s $15bn opportunistic real estate fund passes halfway mark
Brookfield Strategic Real Estate Partners V raises $8bn in first close
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Landsec sells $400m UK hotel portfolio to Ares and EQ Group
Disposal is in line with Landsec’s strategy to ’release capital from sectors in which the company does not have scale’
- News
Ancala sells Dragon LNG stake to IFM, ADNOC and Vitol-owned VTTI
Shell will remain a 50% shareholder following the transaction
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HASI and KKR team up for $2bn US clean energy push
Duo join forces to initially invest up to $1bn via their newly created CarbonCount Holdings 1 partnership
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Arjun Infrastructure secures €1.4bn for core and core-plus strategy
Manager raises €1.1bn for Infrastructure Alliance Europe 2 and secures €300m to invest alongside the fund
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KKR to invest up to $1bn in US medical buildings venture with Healthcare Realty
Healthcare Realty contributes seed portfolio valued at $383m to the joint venture
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Swiss Institutional Consortium invest $400m in infrastructure alongside CDPQ
Consortium includes Retraites Populaires, CPEG, Centre Patronal, CPEF, PRESV and the Pension Fund of ICRC
- Special Reports
Canada’s IMCO positions itself for global real estate push
The manager of Ontario pension assets is evolving its real estate allocation to changing market dynamics. Razak Musah Baba speaks to Richard Varkey
- News
Eiffel halfway to €1bn target for European energy transition fund
Eiffel Energy Transition III expects to ultimately deploy €3bn to support energy transition in coming years
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Cain merges with Blackbrook to expand European net lease and logistics footprint
Blackbrook will operate as a subsidiary of Cain and will continue to ”focus on future-proof supply chain infrastructure”
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Alterra beats fundraising target for industrial outdoor storage fund
Alterra IOS Venture III closes at $925m, exceeding $850m hard cap
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Brookfield and Microsoft team up for 10.5GW renewables push
Pact will not only focus on wind and solar, but also ’new or impactful carbon-free energy generation technologies’
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CIP launches platform to develop Australian offshore wind projects
CIP has secured nearly 1,300km2 of seabed in Australia to progress two offshore wind projects
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Aon to sell Townsend Group to Riverside
Post transaction, Aon will maintain a real estate investment team and collaborate with specialists to serve client needs
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HOOPP, Hesta and Generate Capital back Pine Gate with $650m
US solar and energy projects firm secure capital to fund development of additional projects
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LGPS Central commits £220m to UK infrastructure debt via Macquarie fund
Macquarie Inflation Linked Income Fund makes initial investment
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Coima selected for €500m Intesa Sanpaolo real estate mandate
Deal involves Italian banking group taking shares in Coima investment vehicles
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INREV Conference: AXA IM’s Scemama on lessons learnt from past downturns
Scemama believes yields have been stabilising since beginning of 2024
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NBIM pays €203m for half of Spanish solar plants from Iberdrola
Pair strengthen existing relationship with third partnership
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INREV Conference: Brookfield CEO Flatt sees past interest rate fears
Flatt disagrees with notion that large-scale real estate portfolios are inherently riskier