Banks have come running to Britain’s M25 motorway project after the government offered to fund it itself
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The dearth of new funding threatens market development
2 min read · 08 February 2013
Chicago has been forced to shelve plans to lease Midway Airport, but this reflects problems in the financial markets rather than with public private partnerships
3 min read · 08 February 2013
London’s G20 summit failed to produce the promised infrastructure binge, and now there are grumbles that the various national investment plans aren’t leading to much new work either. By Michael Kapoor
6 min read · 08 February 2013
In 1626, Dutch settlers supposedly exchanged Native Americans a pile of beads for a deed to Manhattan. 383 years later, Cezary Podkul sat down with Mitch Daniels, Governor of Indiana, to find out how the $3.8 billion lease of his state’s toll road compared with that original big deal
10 min read · 08 February 2013
The current financial crisis will lead to permanent and deep change in infrastructure investment, says Challenger’s Andrew Jones
6 min read · 08 February 2013
Principals from Carlyle, Macquarie, RREEF and Industry Funds Management gathered today cautioned that market will not develop across America’s ‘fifty little countries’ without strong leadership from the government in creating incentives for private investment in infrastructure.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
John Herbert, a former managing director of Merrill Lynch’s European property and hotel group, has joined the Italian firm as senior advisor of its €300m fund of funds.
1 min read · 08 February 2013
The publicly traded buyout firm, which defaulted on $2.3bn of unsecured debt in March, told shareholders a Chapter 11 bankruptcy is unlikely.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
The Cayman Islands-based firm has launched a residential housing fund, with hopes of closing the vehicle by the end of the year. Half the fund is expected to invest in Peru and Colombia. The firm's last fund closed on $42m last year.
2 min read · 08 February 2013
