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INFRASTRUCTURE ASSETS including ports, parking garages and toll roads have been a hotspot of infrastructure investing over recent years. The entry of infrastructure funds into the transportation sector combined with readily available sources of finance drove valuations and created strong competition for assets.

In the post-crisis world, however, infrastructure investing has changed.

Institutional investors, including US and Canadian public pension plans, have expressed serious concerns about the infrastructure fund model. Closed-end funds of limited duration and the private equity style management fees levied by fund managers are under the spotlight. Public pension plans are now agitating for change and actively seeking alternative investment approaches.

Questions have also been raised about investment discipline. Infrastructure is a fundamentally good sector, but a number of infrastructure funds invested at peak valuations in highly leveraged structures.

Infrastructure Investors Forum Americas 2010 will discuss how infrastructure investors are adapting their strategies to deal with these issues as well as maximize investment opportunities in sectors including power & energy and renewables, and in different countries across the Americas.

The forum will aim to conclude with an assessment of what infrastructure investing will look like in the future and which types of investor will emerge as the winners.

	Last Updated: 23.08.10

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