Hadrian’s Wall clinched a £160m first close after more than two years on the fundraising trail. Now it needs a few deals to show investors that its plan to kick-start capital markets infrastructure investment is viable, Bruno Alves reports
6 min read · 15 January 2013
With its promise of diversification and a high degree of investor comfort, social infrastructure is becoming a favoured investment theme. Greg Maclean of AMP Capital runs the rule over the sector.
5 min read · 15 January 2013
With strained government budgets, sales of state assets are high on the agenda in Australia – and local infrastructure professionals are rubbing their hands together in anticipation of an acceleration in deal flow. Andy Thomson was in Sydney to hear views on this as well as other topical themes such as the supply of debt finance and how to hone the PPP model.
10 min read · 15 January 2013
The Australian PPP market has been the target of international developers and development funds, but now local and international institutional investors are being increasingly attracted to this core infrastructure investment segment. Duncan Taylor discusses opportunities and nuances
5 min read · 15 January 2013
With a newly minted fund and a fat Rolodex, Water Asset Management co-heads Disque Deane and Matt Diserio are more than willing to evangelise about investing in the water sector. And, pretty soon, they expect to be preaching to the converted.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The prospect for infrastructure investment in Australia is a story in three parts – resources, general urban development and, potentially, agribusiness, suggests Brian McDonald.
6 min read · 15 January 2013
The shortcomings in US infrastructure have received much attention. Jay Brown and Robin Priest argue that a modest channeling of income tax revenue could be a big step towards addressing the problem
5 min read · 15 January 2013
The Russian government wants to tender close to €10bn of roads between 2012 and 2015 and kick-start procurement for a €15bn high-speed rail link between Moscow and St. Petersburg. But at a time of record capital outflows, will foreign investors heed the Russian state’s call? Bruno Alves investigates
6 min read · 15 January 2013
The lead investors in the Boston- and Greenwich, Connecticut-based private equity real estate firm’s first commingled fund helped to steer additional capital to the vehicle, which became oversubscribed less than a year after its official launch.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
The lead investors in the Boston- and Greenwich, Connecticut-based private equity real estate firm’s first commingled fund helped to steer additional capital to the vehicle, which became oversubscribed less than a year after its official launch.
3 min read · 15 January 2013
