Empresas y finanzas

Exclusive: Macquarie eyes $2 billion N. American infrastructure fund: sources

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Macquarie Group Ltd , the world's largest manager of infrastructure assets, is preparing to launch a $2 billion infrastructure fund focused on the U.S. and Canada in 2012, people familiar with the matter said.

Australia's Macquarie, which has averaged gross internal rates of return of over 20 percent in its North American infrastructure investments, is planning to start fundraising this year, as its second $1.6 billion North American infrastructure fund was fully invested, the people said.

Macquarie declined to comment.

(Reporting by Greg Roumeliotis in New York; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

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