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Conference Board's policy arm, the Committee for Economic Development, is urging a swift overhaul of U.S. infrastructure investment in areas like broadband, energy, and transportation.

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U.S. infrastructure needs overhaul, says Conference Board public policy arm

The Committee for Economic Development (CED), the public policy center of the non-partisan think tank, the Conference Board, has issued a new report identifying sweeping…

Investable UniverseFebruary 22, 2021

A new report from thinktank Heartland Forward says 10-30 percent of U.S. manufacturers considering moving manufacturing abroad would be better off staying put.

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A case for “holistic reshoring” of U.S. production jobs to heartland

A new report from Heartland Forward, the non-partisan, non-profit Midwest economic renewal think tank based in Bentonville, Arkansas, has called for a range of “holistic…

Investable UniverseFebruary 3, 2021

Mitsubishi UFJ's Capital Markets Strategy Group identifies key risks facing the Biden Presidency, from covid recovery to inflationary pressure.

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Mitsubishi UFJ strategists expect volatility beyond Biden’s First 100 Days

Mitsubishi UFJ, the Japanese financial services giant whose estimated $3 trillion in assets under management ($339 billion in the U.S. alone) make it the world’s…

Investable UniverseJanuary 21, 2021

Korea's NPS is reported to have invested nearly $500 million in two U.S. focused infrastructure funds.

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Report: S. Korea pension fund invested nearly $500mn in U.S. infrastructure funds

South Korean financial media is reporting that the National Pension Service of Korea (NPS), whose approximately $675 billion in AUM (as of August 2020) make…

Investable UniverseJanuary 8, 2021

5G wireless technology and infrastructure is likely to deepen U.S.-Japan ties, urged on by Japan's demographic challenges and economic imperative, and the U.S. focus on national security and defense.

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Why 5G is Critical For U.S.-Japan relations

The emergence of 5G (fifth generation wireless) networks has the potential to uncover new use cases, commercial applications, impact consumer access to public goods and…

Investable UniverseNovember 17, 2020

According to figures from the FCC, broadband is unavailable to roughly 25 million Americans, more than 19 million of whom are in rural America. Closing this gap could take $100 billion of investment.

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Rural America Needs A 5G Plan

On Thursday, FirstLight, a U.S. provider of fiberoptic data, Internet, data center, cloud and voice services to customers in the U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, announced…

Investable UniverseNovember 5, 2020

$FarmTogether gives accredited investors direct access to fractional ownership in U.S. farmland, a $2.5 trillion asset class that has been traditionally owned by actual farmers or very large institutional investors, such as pension funds.$ Alternative Assets Commodities ESG Innovations Land/Agriculture North America Pension funds Venture capital

FarmTogether: New platform offers fractional investing in world’s oldest asset class

It’s not FarmVille—it’s better! Crop farming meets crowdfunding on FarmTogether, a new online investment platform that is backed by Franklin Templeton Legg Mason, the global…

Investable UniverseNovember 5, 2020

Starwood Capital's announcement that its SREIT real estate trust is buying two portfolios of more than 4,600 affordable housing units in multifamily properties in the Sun Belt will make Starwood the third-largest owner of affordable housing in the United States.

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Starwood Capital to be third-biggest U.S. affordable housing owner with REIT buy

This week, Starwood Capital Group’s Starwood Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (SREIT), a non-traded REIT with $4.3 billion in portfolio assets spread across 106 properties,…

Investable UniverseNovember 4, 2020

AddEnergie, whose FLO charging stations for EV cars are found in a growing number of North American cities, successfully closed a Series C funding round with repeat investment from institutional funds including CDPQ, further consolidating Quebec's role in electrification technologies.

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Go with the FLO: AddEnergie gets big raise from Canadian institutional funds

On Friday, Quebec’s next-generation infrastructure startup AddEnergie Technologies Inc., which owns and operates the FLO® electric vehicle (EV) charging network seen across North America, announced…

Investable UniverseOctober 30, 2020

Palau spur cable will be the first project under the Trilateral Infrastructure Project between the United States, Japan and Australia, which the allies formalized in November 2018.

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Big Micronesian submarine cable gets support from high places

This week, the U.S. and key diplomatic allies in the Asia-Pacific region announced an agreement to jointly finance construction of of an undersea fiberoptic cable…