Global institutional investors are circling a swathe of energy-related infrastructure assets in Latin America to increase their exposure to a region rife with uncertainties but offering greater returns than those in more developed markets. Private investors or pension funds with cash burning holes in their pockets are increasingly participating in leveraged acquisitions of assets from Chile to Mexico. Mainly in the energy and infrastructure fields, such assets come with assigned long-term operating concessions and line up with the buyside's taste for longer-term investments, bankers say.
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