The firm has opened offices in Chicago and Los Angeles as it continues expanding its secondaries advisory and fundraising business.
The Australian government will help fund the development of a new pipeline of infrastructure projects across southeast Asia to “attract sustainable public and private financing”.
The categorisation of infrastructure is more down to the returns generated, delegates in Berlin heard.
Populist sentiment may be putting pressure on politicians to tighten regulation, but improving communication between the public and private sectors – and changing the tone on both sides – is key to managing political risk.
Jason Munsch, senior principal at Alberta Teachers' Retirement Fund, underlines some of the challenges facing the industry, including pressures in the core market and the dangers of managers bleeding up the risk curve.
Six of the country's largest investors have signed an open letter calling on asset managers to adhere to a code of conduct, in a move to 'rebuild confidence.'
Over 450 LPs are set to attend our flagship event, starting tomorrow in Berlin. We polled a selection to find out how they're allocating to infra, what strategies are catching their eye and what concerns them the most about the asset class.
While infra investors shouldn’t expect a repeat of the $5bn Equis Energy deal any time soon, they can look forward to a wealth of renewables opportunities. Each market poses its own challenges, though.
An advisor to the $52.7bn pension recommended new strategies, including infrastructure investments, to ‘enhance the fund’s risk-adjusted returns’.
The pension is planning to build a $2.62bn infrastructure portfolio by 2023, which would represent 7 percent of its total AUM.
Embracing new technology needed for autonomous vehicles would have positive effects on the power generation sector, argues the latest report from AMP Capital.
But the Grattan Institute’s focus on discount rate is largely seen as missing the mark by the industry.
The UK pension fund is looking to grow its £600m infrastructure portfolio by targeting opportunities overseas.
Infrastructure’s one-year return is comparable with private equity for Alaska Permanent Fund’s $64.5bn portfolio.
Three sizeable investors have teamed up to back promising first-time managers with $700m. How will it work?