
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
- Tel:
- +44 (0)20 3465 9300
- Email:
- razak.baba@ipe.com
- News
StratCap explores strategic alternatives for wireless infrastructure fund
Manager mulls sale of Strategic Wireless Infrastructure Fund’s 100 tower assets
- News
Lambeth Pension Fund commits to London CIV UK affordable housing fund
Open-ended UK affordable housing vehicle plans to raise over £250m in its first close at end of next month
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JP Morgan’s forest management business buys $500m timberland asset
Campbell Global acquires over 250,000 acres of commercial timberland
- News
Trei sells entire retail property portfolio in Portugal to LCN Capital
Disposal is part of plan to focus on Trei’s core markets of Germany, US and Poland
- News
Tesi, Veritas and Elo anchor sustainable forest industries fund
UB FIGG’s initial €100m raise was also backed by Sandvik and Finnish Broadcasting Company pensions
- News
Glennmont enters Swedish market with 47MW onshore wind portfolio purchase
Glennmont buys wind portfolio for PMT-backed European renewable infrastructure fund
- News
ArcLight puts $150m in battery storage developer Elevate
Newly formed Elevate Renewables develops and installs utility-scale, battery energy storage projects
- News
Patrizia smart cities fund adds Kenosha in latest US fibre rollout deal
APG-backed Smart Cities Infrastructure Fund and SiFi Networks to develop Kenosha FiberCity
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Cadillac Fairview and Boreal IM expand logistics venture into Spain and France
Boreal IM & Cadillac Fairview JV has now completed acquisitions in four of its six target locations since formation
- Magazine
Africa: continent of opportunity for real assets?
Investors could be helping fill the funding gap for real assets in Africa, while aiding diversification and their net-zero goals, writes Razak Musah Baba
- News
Round Hill Capital enters Danish build-to-rent market
Global manager buys three assets in Aarhus for European core/core-plus residential fund
- News
CBRE IM expands US fibre portfolio with Gateway Fibre purchase
Crosstimbers Capital agrees to sell Missouri-based fibre-to-the-home provider Gateway
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Macquarie sells Open Grid Europe stake to Fluxys
Belgium-based energy infrastructure firm buys 24% stake in largest transmission system operator in Germany
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Germany leads Europe’s Q4 real estate transactions slump, MSCI report
MSCI Real Assets report shows real estate transactions in Europe in Q4 fell 66% to €53.9bn
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Samsung SRA awards AEW €375m European core, core-plus investments job
AEW to invest in repriced assets as ’market continues to correct following recent interest rate rises’
- News
CPP Investments leads Harbor Group’s $1.6bn fundraise for debt fund
CPPIB Credit Investments III contributes $585m to Multifamily Credit Fund
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Nuveen Real Estate appoints Giraldo head of Europe
TIAA’s real estate account portfolio manager to lead Nuveen’s $24.4bn European property business
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KGAL and Pfalzsolar to develop 176MW solar projects in Greece
KGAL’s fifth European renewable energy vehicle and Pfalzsolar to develop Volos and Evros projects
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IFM Investors sells 25% stake in UK’s M6 toll road to GLIL
IFM GIF has been invested in M6toll since 2017 and will continue to indirectly own 75%
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Patrizia and Mitsui launch sustainable APAC infrastructure strategy
New APAC infrastructure strategy aims to manage up to $1bn in assets