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The former Federal Reserve chairman noted the need for improved roads and bridges but questioned the costs in a talk focused on entitlement and regulatory reform at PEI’s CFOs and COOs Forum this week.  

The Hong Kong infrastructure platform last month signed MoUs with two Chinese financiers looking to expand their operations in Asia.

Nine US and European developers plan to bid in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s seventh lease auction.

The hire comes as the global investment manager seeks €250m for its first secondaries fund in the asset class since the firm’s 2014 formation.

The 2.1GW facility is the largest Chinese-led power project to date in the country, and part of Jakarta’s efforts to provide 35GW of new capacity by 2020.

The 200MW Aussie plant joins two operating solar farms backed by the vehicle last November.

The German-based investor said it sees the US wind market as an attractive way to grow its €16bn portfolio of alternative assets.

The investment firm has garnered about 57% of its latest energy infrastructure vehicle's target, which is larger than its two previous funds combined.

The financing marks the first investment by a $1.5bn joint investment vehicle set up by the ADB and Japan’s cooperation agency in March.

Conquest is hoping to draw in institutional investors in its first vehicle targeting the sector so as to chase wind and solar assets across western Europe.

The country’s finance minister said Peru would withhold Odebrecht’s revenues from any pipeline sale, according to reports.

Richard Samans, a board member of the World Economic Forum, thinks development banks would unlock more private capital for infrastructure if they focused on mitigating risks.

The $1.4trn Japanese pension fund is moving into a more dynamic selection process and integrating ESG factors in its investments as it hopes to become a role model for Japanese investors.

The team joins asset manager Patrimonium three months after the successful restructuring of its 2007-vintage fund.