Policy

A trade body has sued the government over its February retroactive cuts to the renewables sector and regulated transmission assets.

President Barack Obama cited the Port of Miami Tunnel P3 as emblematic of his infrastructure plan.

Maryland has a touch-and-go relationship with enabling legislation. HB 560 is the latest manifestation of a would-be P3 programme.

The government is calling on pension funds, insurers, debt funds and other players in the private infrastructure debt market to give it feedback on how bonds could be used to fund new concessions. 

Nepal is moving to embrace private sector infrastructure funding in a break with its reliance on the national budget. The International Finance Corporation is pledging to help.

Managing inflation is in. But UBS global infrastructure chief Paul Moy (pictured) warns against simplistic notions of infrastructure's hedging power and says the asset class is no panacea.

Peter Stonor, a veteran infrastructure banker who has worked for Macquarie and RBS, is new global head of infrastructure for VTB Capital. The investment bank, based in Russia, has rapidly expanded in 2012.

Traditional fixed income and equity investing is failing to deliver. And infrastructure is positioned to gobble up disillusioned institutional capital, according to industry personnel.

Congressman John Mica is adamant that the private sector can do a better job with US infrastructure. Convincing big government of that is his mission.

A white paper from minister of infrastructure and transportation Anthony Albanese suggested alternative financing, including off-balance sheet accounting, is needed to support the asset class in Australia.