Coming out of the economic downturn, private investors are seeking new avenues to generate tax-efficient returns on their invested funds.Could the use of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) as a funding mechanism for major infrastructure projects provide such an opportunity? There has been a lot of talk about institutional investors for public private partnerships in infrastructure projects.According to Deloitte's report:"REITs offer certain advantages over partnerships in their ability to raise capital from diverse sources, particularly foreign investors. This may be especially helpful in the P3 market, where many of the current equity investors and project developers are global corporations that often need complex tax structuring to optimize their participation in P3s. In addition, expanding the investor base to individual investors may increase the availability equity capital for infrastructure projects".But I want you to read it here too, so I leave it embedded on Scribd here:REITs and Infrastructure Projects Don't forget to send to us (ppp.news.aggregator@gmail.com) any new report you come across so that we update it in our Infrastructure/PPP/P3 Database.And subscribe to our blog if you want to get the best PPP/P3 information.