SK Goel, Chairman and Managing Director of India Infrastructure Finance Company (IIFCL) said that the firm got Securities and Exchange Board of India's (Sebi) nod to launch $1 billion infrastructure debt fund (IDF). IIFCL expects to operationalise the fund in a month. Of the $1 billion corpus, 50 per cent would be contributed by Indian investors and 50 per cent by foreign investors, he said at the launch of first credit enhanced infrastructure bonds.
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Tag: SK Goel
IDFs are yet to take shape in the country
It would be purposeful for taking steps towards simultaneously developing IDF and bond market, says SK Goel, Chairman & Managing Director, IIFCL, Infrastructure Debt Funds (IDFs) are yet to take shape in the country as the infrastructure bond market is in its nascent stage. Till infrastructure bond market develops, IDFs may not find adequate avenues for investment and on the contrary till IDFs evolve, the infrastructure bond market may find it difficult to attract sufficient investments.
Structural and tariff issues hampering port finance
IIFCL recently undertook takeout financing of a road and a port project, in the midst of much debate on this new form of finance involving underwriting an existing loan from another financial institution.
On a double growth
India Infrastructure Finance Company’s (IIFCL) net profit has more than doubled to Rs 678 crore (Rs 330 crore) for the year ended 31 March 2012, aided by a big jump in net interest margin.
Infrascape 2012 | Finance: Brewing strain on debt servicing
For us the most active and fruitful sectors in 2011 were road and power sector. These sectors comÂprise a majority of our portÂfolio. I understand that even in case of commercial banks these two sectors form the majority of their infrastruÂcture loan book,

