Fundraising

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.

The prospect for infrastructure investment in Australia is a story in three parts – resources, general urban development and, potentially, agribusiness, suggests Brian McDonald.

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

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.

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.

The prospect for infrastructure investment in Australia is a story in three parts – resources, general urban development and, potentially, agribusiness, suggests Brian McDonald.

The fund will invest in second-tier Russian banks in an effort to improve economic stability and strengthen the region’s banking industry.

The fund will invest in second-tier Russian banks in an effort to improve economic stability and strengthen the region’s banking industry.

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.

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.