Argo Infrastructure Partners, led by ex-JPMorgan infra CIO Jason Zibarras, is managing the new platform, targeting large institutional investors.
Transport Secretary Anthony Foxx said $500m will be made available in the seventh round of the TIGER grant programme to fund surface transportation projects in 2015.
Miami-Dade County is inviting public comments before releasing an RFQ for the procurement of a biosolids processing facility, which would be the first water sector P3 in Florida.
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Blackstone will provide financial support and oversight to GridLiance, a newly-formed company that will partner with public power utilities to develop, own and operate transmission infrastructure.
The New York-based asset management firm has rolled out a new global platform that will focus on direct and co-investment opportunities in real assets.
The London-based private placement agent has added Patricia Chalian, formerly of Forbes Private Capital Group, to its New York office.
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One day after Ontario Teachers’ announced Neil Petroff would be retiring June 1, the Canadian pension posted strong annual results with its infra portfolio achieving a return of 10.1%.
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The UK’s green bank is committing £200m, with a major sovereign wealth fund and UK-based pensions contributing the rest.
The country’s Ministry of Transport and Communications is seeking market views on the project to build a new cargo port in Kaunas.
When investing in infrastructure, making people understand the value they will receive from a project is key in gaining public acceptance.
The sale of a third of the UK’s largest port group provides an exit to Goldman Sachs and Infracapital, which bought the business in 2006 alongside Borealis and GIC.
Several organisations, including Germany’s KfW IPEX-Bank, are financing rolling stock for the ScotRail franchise.
The joint acquisition of a 45% stake in the Los Ramones II projects marks the first foreign investment in a PEMEX midstream asset.
New South Wales’ planned sell-off of electricity poles and wires assets is set to proceed as the Liberal-National coalition government is re-elected.
The London-listed company has now deployed the whole of the £131m it raised last November.