Representatives of the Australian fund show their willingness to invest in sectors such as green hydrogen or semiconductors

The acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, held a "positive" meeting this Friday with senior executives of the Australian fund IFM Investors, in which the shareholder representatives of Spanish companies such as Naturgy or Aqualia, expressed their interest in continuing to invest. in the country in different sectors, among which could be hydrogen and semiconductors.

The meeting, held in Moncloa this Friday, has been described as "positive" by the acting President of the Government, who received the global director of Infrastructure of IFM Investors, Kyle Mangini, and the head of the Australian fund in Spain, Jaime Siles .

In this sense, Sánchez highlighted in a tweet later published on X (Twitter) that the strengths and growth of the country's economy "provide confidence to the main international investors in Spain."

"We are a reliable, safe and attractive destination for investment," he added.

For their part, sources close to the Australian fund indicated to Europa Press the "cordial and positive" nature of the meeting, in which IFM has expressed its interest in continuing to invest in Spain, "an interesting market with opportunities."

In this sense, there is interest in investing in different sectors, including green hydrogen or semiconductors, and IFM has shown its willingness.

The Australian pension fund manager, present in the capital of Spanish companies such as Naturgy, Aqualia or Aleástica, held this week in Madrid the annual general meeting of its infrastructure fund, something that reflects "the growing strategic importance of Spain" for IFM Investors, which has invested around 8,000 million euros in the country in the last five years.

In this sense, in a meeting with Spanish media last Monday, representatives of the Australian fund said they felt "very comfortable" with investments in the country, where the firm remains attentive to opportunities that may appear.

"We think in terms of decades, not years," said then the global head of Infrastructure at IFM, Kyle Mangini, who stressed, in the particular case of Naturgy, where they hold 14.5%, the entity hopes to "remain for a long time ".

In any case, the director of the Australian fund defended that, assuming that changes always occur in terms of the regulatory environment, as a long-term investor IFM likes "consistency and predictability."

For her part, IFM's Director of Infrastructure for Europe, Deepa Bharadwaj, pointed out that the entity evaluates the different sectors "with an open approach" regarding the possibility of new investments in the country.