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.
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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.
European investment plan requires public private collaboration
The two largest institutional investors in the Netherlands, PGGM and APG, have responded to the European Commission’s investment plan, urging the commission to call on institutional investors to collaborate on the investment proposal. However they also warn that institutional investors are not just a “subsidising entity” and the Juncker Plan is best executed as a
Despite demand ADIA still sees value in infrastructure
There is still value in infrastructure, according to ADIA’s head of infrastructure, John McCarthy, provided you adopt a flexible approach. The huge sovereign wealth fund is reviewing its strategy, including whether it currently has appropriate benchmarks in infrastructure, a question that has been prompted by its outperformance. The natural competitive advantage that the Abu
AustralianSuper contemplates foreign outposts
Australia’s largest superannuation fund, AustralianSuper, is considering whether it should have its own investment management and currency hedging teams based in Europe and America. Due to the mandatory nature of the system in Australia, the current rate of funds under management growth means assets are doubling every four to five years. Peter Curtis, head of
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