Alberta Investment Management Co. (AIMCo) has agreed to buy a 50% interest in the Autopista Central Highway in Santiago, Chile, from Skanska AB for $878 million. The six-lane highway runs 61 kilometres through central Santiago and connects the suburbs with downtown and the Pan-American Highway. “Rapid economic growth in Latin America is creating a great […]
While infrastructure assets may be divided into these four broad categories, investors must also consider other factors that will impact an asset’s risk profile, such as what market an asset is in, the nature of the political environment and regulator (if any), the levels of leverage and the stage of development of the asset (the […]
The past decade has seen dramatic growth in the number of institutional investors that have added infrastructure to their asset allocation strategies. Changes to pension regulatory and accounting rules have been one catalyst prompting many investors to seek assets that better match their long-term liabilities. Other drivers include concerns regarding where inflation is headed and […]
Barriers: regulatory risk, high costs.
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