London/Edinburgh, 20 April 2017 — A Macquarie-led consortium, comprising Macquarie Group Limited (Macquarie), Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5 (MEIF5) and Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), has agreed to acquire the UK Green Investment Bank plc (Green Investment Bank) from HM Government for £2.3 billion.
The winners were announced yesterday at the IJGlobal Europe and Africa Awards dinner. The IJGlobal Awards 2016 recognise and celebrate the best in energy and infrastructure globally.
USS and Morgan Sindall Investments Limited (MSIL) have launched a new joint venture (JV) – the ‘Supported Housing Investment Limited Partnership’ (SHIP). The landmark transaction brings together USS, one of the largest pension schemes and real estate investors in the UK, with MSIL’s market-leading expertise in social infrastructure development and investment.
This collaboration has been seeded with a USD3.1 billion portfolio of outstanding loans to a diversified portfolio of specialist direct lending funds originated by Credit Suisse over the course of H2 2014 and FY 2015, each of which is secured by an underlying portfolio of loans to medium-sized European companies.
USS has adopted Ortec Finance’s Asset-Liability Management (ALM) solution, which will be fully integrated into USS’s investment process.
Thirteen leading international asset owners and five asset managers with over £2 trillion under management launched the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) on 11 January to better understand how the transition to a low-carbon economy affects their investments.
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Ontario Teachers’) and Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited (USS) today announced the acquisition of Westerleigh Group (Westerleigh), the UK crematoria developer and operator, from Antin Infrastructure Partners (Antin). The transaction is expected to close by year end.
The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has approved USS’s application for ISO 27001:2013, a sought-after accreditation in information security.
USS has published its annual Report and Accounts for 2015/16, a period in which the trustee has continued its transformational investment in both the asset management business and in pensions administration systems.
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