M&G : appoints Beata Sperling-Tyler to infrastructure finance team

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M&G appoints Beata Sperling-Tyler to infrastructure finance team

New hire brings 25 years of experience in infrastructure, private markets and ESG

London, 17 June 2021 - M&G Investments announces the appointment of Beata Sperling-Tyler within the Infrastructure Finance team, part of the £67.2 billion Private & Alternative Assets division.

With 25 years specialising across infrastructure finance, credit analysis and private markets, Beata brings significant knowledge and experience to M&G, where she will be working with our funds across the full range of infrastructure sectors.

She joins from S&P Global Ratings, where she worked for over 15 years in the Infrastructure Ratings team covering a portfolio of major infrastructure companies, including the biggest European airports and ports, rail and rolling stock operating companies and toll roads, as well as project financings in the social and transportation infrastructure sectors.

Beata also has extensive expertise on the ESG factors affecting infrastructure companies, having contributed to the S&P Sustainable Finance team's environmental and climate risk research in the infrastructure sector.

John Mayhew, Head of Infrastructure Finance at M&G, said: "We are pleased to welcome Beata who has fantastic knowledge of the sector and insight into the implications of ESG and sustainability for infrastructure assets. Beata further bolsters the experienced team making investments on behalf of institutional investors, including many pension funds who have increasingly allocated to the sector over the past decade."

Sitting with M&G's £67 billion Private & Alternative Assets division*, the Infrastructure Finance team is responsible for managing and sourcing financing opportunities in the development and maintenance of essential services and structures in the public and private sector. The team was first established over 20 years ago and has been making carefully selected investments in the sector ever since.

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Notes to Editors

Beata Sperling-Tyler joins M&G as an Associate Director in the Infrastructure Finance team. She previously worked at S&P Global Ratings in the Infrastructure Ratings team for over 15 years, where her roles included Associate Director, Infrastructure Ratings (2012-2021), as well as Associate Director (2007- 2012) and Associate (2005-2007) within the Project Finance & Transportation team.

Prior to joining S&P Global Ratings in 2005, Beata held several roles including Executive in the Infrastructure, Government and Utilities team at PricewaterhouseCoopers (2003-2005), as an Executive at Bridgepoint Capital (2001-2002) and as an Analyst in the Corporate Finance team at JP Morgan Chase (1998-2001). She began her career as a Corporate Finance Analyst for the Union Bank of Switzerland

(1996-1998).

*Size of Private & Alternative Assets team as at 31 December 2020.

About M&G Investments

M&G Investments is part of M&G plc, a savings and investment business which was formed in 2017 through the merger of Prudential plc's UK and Europe savings and insurance operation and M&G, its wholly owned international investment manager. M&G plc listed as an independent company on the London Stock Exchange in October 2019 and has £367 billion of assets under management (as at 31 December 2020). M&G plc has over 5 million customers in the UK, Europe, the Americas and Asia, including individual savers and investors, life insurance policy holders and pension scheme members.

For nearly nine decades M&G Investments has been helping its customers to prosper by putting investments to work, which in turn creates jobs, homes and vital infrastructure in the real economy. Its investment solutions span equities, fixed income, multi asset, cash, private debt, infrastructure and real estate.

M&G recognises the importance of responsible investing and is a signatory to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) and is a member of the Climate Bonds Initiative Partners Programme.

M&G plc has committed to achieve net zero carbon emissions on its total book of assets under management and administration by 2050 and committed to reduce operational carbon emissions as a corporate entity to net zero by 2030.

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