North American Infrastructure fund

The average gross internal rates of return of more than 20 percent in its North American infrastructure investments is planning to start fundraising this year and the second $1.6 billion North American infrastructure fund was fully invested to the people said.

A champion of private investment to the United States lags behind Europe and Australia in the privatization of infrastructure such as roads, tunnels and bridges, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development in a September report called the U.S. infrastructure market "immature" and the political bickering at state and local levels, multilayered planning bureaucracy, opposition by labor unions and consumer groups to privatization and a competitive municipal bond market have historically conspired to limit the role of direct private investments in U.S. infrastructure.

The macquarie is betting on a vibrant market for privatized infrastructure assets set to change hands to the major U.S. infrastructure deals completed in 2010 and 2011, 64 percent were transactions in the secondary market February report in Pricewater house Coopers of a macquarie has also proved successful in bidding for the few new assets on the market. It was behind the largest U.S infrastructure deals of the last two years $2.1 billion project.