Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) — Pension Insurance Corp., a London-based insurer of pension funds, bought the U.K.’s first publiclylisted bond for solar power projects from developer Solar PowerGeneration Ltd.The insurer invested 40 million pounds ($64 million) in abond that is linked to a pair of 5-megawatt photovoltaic plantsin Somerset, southwestern England, it said in an e-mailedstatement today. The bond matures in 2036, it said.The bond is the first to benefit from the U.K.’s feed-intariff system, which guarantees fixed premium rates forelectricity from solar installations. It will provide a goodmatch for the insurer’s pension liabilities thanks to the 24-year inflation-linked cashflows for the two plants, according toPension Insurance.“Infrastructure investment will become increasingimportant for the holders of long term capital, such as insurersand pension funds, as they seek yield over and above thatavailable on gilts, in a low risk structure,” Mark Gull,Pension Corp’s co-head of asset liability management, said inthe statement. “We will certainly look at other opportunitiesas they arise.”
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Private equity: Winds of change
FT article on PE investment in renewable infrastructure, from Dec 2011
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/773d57ac-1edc-11e1-a75f-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz2FRFDgiVj
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