Razak Musah Baba
IPE Real Assets News Editor
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NewsAirports likely to be hardest hit infrastructure sector amid COVID-19
Infra sectors most exposed to an economic shock are GDP-correlated assets such as airports, ports and toll roads
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Investors positive on China’s long-term growth despite COVID-19 outbreak
Respondents from foreign institutions plan to invest in Shanghai in the next 12 months
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Shopping centre owner Intu warns of bankruptcy as loss widens [updated]
CEO says company has options to provide liquidity and will seek to negotiate covenant waivers
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Proptech: Future funders
Investors and fund managers are investing directly in proptech firms. Are they doing it for the long-term interests of the industry? Razak Musah Baba reports
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CPP Investments and Goodman add $2.5bn to US logistics partnership
Goodman will allocate $1.4bn and CPP Investments is putting $1.1bn in GNAP
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Johnson leads UBS US real estate, Chu heads transactions [updated]
Lynch and Connelly will be leaving the firm to pursue other opportunities
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Omnes fourth renewable energy fund raises €380m at initial close
The Capenergie 4 fund has invested €30m for a minority stake in Danish solar firm Better Energy
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Hermes takes over property developer MEPC from BT pension scheme
In April 2018, Federated Investors acquired a majority interest in Hermes from BTPS
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Blackstone and MGP team up to buy $4.6bn Las Vegas leisure properties
MGP will own 50.1% of the joint venture, and BREIT will own 49.9%
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Carbon emissions: Big steps to smaller footprints in real estate
A number of real estate fund managers are stepping up efforts to reduce carbon emissions in their portfolios. Razak Musah Baba reports
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Real estate outlook 2020: The year UK real estate rebounds?
After December’s general election, Brexit looks set to happen at the end of January
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ADIA's Kennedy joins JPMAM to head Europe real estate strategy
He joins from ADIA after 11 years; He was at Invesco Real Estate between 2001 and 2008
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Former OTTP infra head Claerhout joins Searchlight Capital
Searchlight plans to start evaluating investment opportunities immediately
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AXA IM - Real Assets to buy French student housing operator Kley
Kley’s portfolio comprises 2,500 beds across seven operational residences
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IPE RA & Infra Conference: Fibre becoming core part of infrastructure [corrected]
Similar asset classes like data centres and cell towers have become infrastructure assets
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Blackstone expands last-mile logistics portfolio with $5.9bn acquisition
Blackstone doubled its US industrial footprint with an $18.7bn worth of assets from GLP.
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IPE RA & Infra Conference: Investors need to match ESG talk with action
Questionnaire benchmarking is making investors lose sight of what ESG should be
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IPE RA & Infra Conference: Investors wary of social-assets nationalisation
Pension fund feels the need to ‘advertise the benefits’ of institutional ownership
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Blackstone launches €8bn last-mile European logistics real estate business
Van Oost is COO and Thomas ten Bokum is head of investment
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McKellar leads Aberdeen Standard private markets, co-heads of real estate leave
Deputy private markets head Slater is also global head of real estate
