Across the world, funding requirements for investments in public infrastructure will increase over the next few years. Siemens Financial Services (SFS) calculated investment requirements of EUR 15 bn over the next 20 years drawing from Global Insight data on the healthcare, energy, transportation and water sectors. Heavy fiscal burdens make the search for appropriate financing solutions all the more important.

The London Stock Exchange announced on July 12 that it will launch a dedicated new market for issuers of specialist funds.

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GSC Group, an alternative asset investment manager with more than US$24 billion of assets under management that focuses on complex, credit-driven strategies, today announced the successful completion of fundraising for its latest collateralized debt obligation fund, GSC European CDO V, PLC.

Hedge-fund and private-equity managers, already under congressional scrutiny for the lower tax rate they pay on their profits, may also be targeted for a strategy they use to pay less on their management fees, Bloomberg News reported.