Investors scope Belt & Road investing opportunities
China's Belt and Road initiative will require vast sums of capital, and some is likely to need to come from institutional investors. But they are leery of taking on Greenfield project risks.
Asia’s infrastructure needs are vast. But for over 20 years the region has failed to entice much international investor capital to help meet them. The quality of most projects simply hasn’t been high enough, and the political risks of investing into Greenfield projects are too great.
That could be set to change, courtesy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Announced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, the project is designed to strengthen intra-regional integration between China a…
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