Spanish infrastructure and toll road operator Abertis beat forecasts with its growth in nine-month profits thanks to new income streams and said it could improve on those figures for the full year. Join discussion...

HSBC Infrastructure (HICL.L) said on Monday it plans to raise new capital to pay down debt and help fund potential deals it is considering. The listed infrastructure fund said it plans to issue new C shares via a placing and offer for subscription. Collins Stewart and Oriel Securities will act as joint placing agents, the company said. Join discussion...

“I would like to suggest to the tourism ministry to identify places of tourist importance where roads need to be constructed. We (road ministry) would give Rs 50 crore to state governments from CRF to construct major district roads for better connectivity,” Nath said at the World Travel and Tourism Council on Wednesday. Join discussion...

Local authorities may increasingly decide to act as commercial lenders on major waste infrastructure deals as the pot of PFI money begins to dry up, a waste project finance expert claimed yesterday Join discussion...

Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund Limited (MIIF) (MIIF.SI) said on Monday it has agreed to sell 71.6 percent of its interest or a 4.5 percent stake in Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund (MEIF) to a number of investors for S$132 million ($94.62 million). Join discussion...

Institutional investors are being put off infrastructure investment because of the high fees being charged by managers, despite the asset class appealing to them as a way of diversifying their portfolios, according to one of the largest investment consultants. Join discussion...

Tolls and private money, not an infrastructure bank, will raise revenue for infrastructure spending plans under a Tory administration, NCE can reveal. Speaking exclusively to NCE, Conservative construction minister Mark Prisk ruled-out an infrastructure bank, which has long been the subject of lobbying by the ICE. Prisk said it was better to use tolls to attract private investment to finance infrastructure. Join discussion...

Kamal Nath, India's federal minister for road transport and highways, said Wednesday that he will seek to ease overseas borrowing guidelines to help spur much-needed capital inflows to fix the country's creaking infrastructure. Bloomberg News/Landov File photo of Kamal Nath speaking at a news conference on day two of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 29, 2009. .The ministry is looking at relaxing the cap on borrowings, Mr. Nath told reporters on the sidelines of a conference. He said he plans to discuss these issues with the Finance Ministry and the Reserve Bank of India. Join discussion...

Canadian governments looking for funding to boost their public-private partnership infrastructure efforts have until Oct. 30 to apply to a new federal fund for help. PPP Canada, a federal organization, launched the P3 Canada Fund in September as part of a $1.2-billion mandate the group has to support the P3 or alternative finance model in infrastructure projects in Canada. Read more: http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/legal/story.html?id=2125995#ixzz0UYNSbqbJ The New Financial Post Stock Market Challenge starts in October. You could WIN your share of $60,000 in prizing. Register NOW Join discussion...

Chile's private sector will invest at least US$4.5bn over the next five years in new concession projects, the president of local concessionaires association Copsa, Herman Chadwick, told BNamericas. Join discussion...