First benchmarks for infrastructure
The first-ever benchmarks for private infrastructure equity and debt investments have been provided by EDHEC Infrastructure, which is releasing hundreds of new indices to end confusing packaging.
Why Lothian is ready to lead on LGPS pooling – if it comes to Scotland
Scotland's Lothian Pension Fund's celebrated inhouse management affords active management at the price of passive and the ability to shape specific mandates with managers. It also positions the fund to lead on pooling - if pooling comes to Scotland's LGPS funds.
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German fund ÄVWL’s anti-cyclical ethos
Long-term investment in real estate, infrastructure and asset based lending, including financing ships and aircraft where traditional bank backers have fled, make up the German fund’s strategy.
HOOPP fully invested in the future
HOOPP is in an extraordinary position of being 122 per cent funded. It continues to focus on innovative investments - such as credit derivatives - as a way to achieve its pension promise.
PSP addresses low growth, low returns
One of Canada’s largest pension funds, PSP Investments, is addressing low growth and low returns by pursuing platforms and private debt in the race to create new investment opportunities.
West Midlands welcomes pooling
West Midlands is benefitting from savings through boosting in-house management, and is keen to build its allocation to infrastructure. It welcomes the prospect of wider resources and economies of scale from pooling with other local authority schemes.
Coal is dead
Renewable energy infrastructure is an immature market and needs an accepted definition of equity risk, according to Jim Barry, global head of Blackrock Infrastructure Investment Group.
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