All Infrastructure articles – Page 12
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Features
Strathclyde taps renewables as alternatives fund swells
Strathclyde Pension Fund has removed the £300m maximum from its New Opportunities portfolio, and will review its 3 per cent allocation limit, as it makes a suite of diversifying investments predominantly in renewable energy.
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Features
Property tops the table while infra waits in the wings
Defined benefit schemes are increasingly investing in real assets, including property, infrastructure and forestry to use their inflation-linked characteristics to shore up portfolios against expected rate rises.
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Features
The Specialist: Schemes move down the property ladder
Pensions Expert presents case studies, data and analysis on how schemes are investing in property and real assets, such as infrastructure, farmland and timber, in the latest edition of The Specialist.
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Features
Avon links up with peers to gain exposure to infrastructure
Avon Pension Fund is looking to invest £150m in infrastructure, in conjunction with other local authority funds.
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Opinion
Why there is currently not enough infra debt to go around
Is investor demand for infrastructure debt outstripping supply? This question is asked frequently of an asset class that was virtually unknown in the institutional investor market three years ago and is now very much at the forefront for consideration by UK pension schemes.
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Features
LPFA boosts in-house investment team as it focuses on illiquids
The London Pensions Fund Authority is strengthening its in-house investment capabilities in order to reduce investment costs and diversify further into illiquid assets.
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NewsLGPS schemes collaborate on infra to diversify returns
Three local authority pension schemes have revealed their plans to invest in infrastructure collectively, as they look to reduce management costs and diversify their portfolios to protect against market falls.
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FeaturesRPMI ups emerging market exposure to drive returns
NAPF Investment Conference 2014: The Railways Pension Scheme aired plans to increase its exposure to emerging markets, including investment in alternatives, as it seeks further return drivers.
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FeaturesLiability-driven investment: assets, strategies, innovation
A panel of experts debate the increased use of liability-driven investment in the UK, whether there is any alternative to gilt investment, and where innovation is coming from, in this four-part discussion.
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News
European investors hunt alternatives to diversify growth assets
Data analysis: Fixed income attracted the most money from European investors last year, but alternatives won on future allocations as schemes look to derisk and diversify portfolios.
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Opinion
Top five challenges facing DB schemes
The NAPF’s 2013 annual survey showed 12 per cent of private sector defined benefit schemes remained open to new members.
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News
Infrastructure top of agenda despite hurdles
Data analysis: Defined benefit and defined contribution schemes are once again circling infrastructure investments, but a lack of underlying assets and suitable funds – especially for DC investors – is holding back inflows.
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News
Pip founding member details first investment
Strathclyde Pension Fund has approved £50m to be invested in the Pensions Infrastructure Platform and revealed the initiative is considering investments in solar energy.
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Opinion
How to build your infrastructure mandate
Whenever the topic of investing in infrastructure is raised, the conversation inevitably turns to the difficulties of defining an asset class as nebulous as this.
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NewsInfrastructure spurs growth in real asset mandates
Data analysis: Real assets proved popular in the third quarter as European pension schemes looked for inflation protection and long-term stable returns, including a large shift towards infrastructure.
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News
Pip targets 'money in the ground' by year-end
The Pensions Infrastructure Platform is expecting to have made its first investments by the end of this year, as manager selection comes to a close, according to one of its founding members.
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Opinion
Schemes are not obliged to prop up UK economy
Figures for the first quarter of this year showed that business investment had fallen again, from its already very low level.
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NewsSchemes more open to exploring construction risk
Infrastructure debt investment in projects with construction risk such as private finance initiatives and public-private partnerships are gaining traction among pension funds, after initial scepticism.
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News
Alternatives overtake equities as schemes diversify
Data analysis: Alternative investments were a clear favourite in the second quarter among pension schemes looking to property and infrastructure to diversify portfolios, investment data have shown.
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Opinion
Managing your four toughest infrastructure debt risks
Many pension schemes have adopted a twin-track approach to investment strategy that initially seeks to reduce risk versus liabilities by investing in assets that deliver long-dated, inflation-linked cash flows.