12th September, 2024
With India’s Ministry of Road Transport and Highways setting out plans for INR22 trillion (US$262 billion) in infrastructure investment up to FY2031/32, the Indian roads sector continues to be one of the world’s fastest growing infrastructure markets.
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5th September, 2024
India’s quasi-SWF, the National Investment & Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), is planning to raise US$4 billion in capital for infrastructure investments, signalling it is entering a new phase and accelerating its co-investment partnerships.
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2nd September, 2024
India’s central bank the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), stock exchange regulator the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and officials from the new finance hub, GIFT City, are reportedly exploring the launch of a new sovereign wealth fund, in addition to the existing National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF).
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14th August, 2024
The performance of Canada’s highly transparent public pension funds can serve as a barometer for trends across the global institutional investor universe, including highly opaque sovereign wealth funds.
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5th August, 2024
The tiny Himalayan mountain kingdom of Bhutan is seeking to exploit some of its 33GW of hydroelectric potential to supply energy-hungry India by mobilizing its US$3.3 billion sovereign wealth fund, Druk Holding and Investments, to forge partnerships – and its peers are likely to be the most eager investors.
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16th July, 2024
Singaporean state-owned investor Temasek affirmed it is planning to commit US$10 billion to Indian investments over just three years, which should help raise its allocation to the South Asian economy to 10%.
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2nd July, 2024
Singaporean sovereign wealth fund GIC has teamed up with Metro Pacific Tollways to buy up a 35% stake worth US$1 billion in a network of toll roads on Indonesia’s island of Java, in what could be a record year for investment by state-owned investors in Asian toll road networks.
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18th June, 2024
Canada’s biggest public pension fund, CPP Investments, could be close to acquiring a INR100 billion (US$1.2 billion) Indian roads portfolio from India’s quasi-sovereign wealth fund the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), but is up against Macquarie and infrastructure investment trust Cube Highways at the advanced bidding stage.
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29th May, 2024
Data Centers are pivotal in the development of the digital economy – and India’s digital economy is one of the biggest growth drivers, drawing in a range of sovereign wealth funds.
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9th May, 2024
Canadian pension fund CDPQ has a voracious appetite for renewables investments, but like other state-owned investors it is coming up against the limits of suitable opportunities that meet its expectations.
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3rd May, 2024
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) is continuing its investment drive in India with the former boosting its support for Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance empire by investing in its logistics infrastructure, while also forging alliances in high growth residential real estate markets.
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18th April, 2024
India’s quasi-sovereign wealth fund, the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund Ltd (NIIF), is planning to raise a second Private Markets Fund after it closes its first one later this year, which was set to deploy US$600 million in Indian private equity funds.
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