Alternatives
Toll Roads Face Long Road to Recovery: Bad News for Funds Eyeing Infrastructure
The typically stable asset class has been hit as traffic levels have dropped 40% to 85% globally, S&P analysts say.
Tag: Infrastructure
Shop Talk
Institutional Investors, Asset Recycling, and the US Infrastructure Agenda
Infrastructure is a hot topic in the upcoming fourth coronavirus stimulus package, and the world’s wealthiest asset managers, bearing an appetite for portfolio resiliency and diversification, could be of great assistance.
Asset Allocation
Washington State Board Makes Up To $1.9 Billion in Extra Private Market Commitments
New allocation adds to WSIB’s already outsized allocation to these assets, which has helped cushion it amid equity market turbulence.
Alternatives
Investors ‘Double Down’ on Alts Amid Market Turmoil
Market concern is increasing investors’ appetite for alternative assets.
Shop Talk
The Untapped Potential of Infrastructure Investments’ Influence on Humanity
Investments in infrastructure can perpetuate on the advancement of our societies, while providing attractive defensive elements to a portfolio.
Asset Allocation
Canadian Pensions Acquire Stake in Mexican Construction Firm
CPPIB continues to plow money into infrastructure investments.
News
Los Angeles Explores Direct Infrastructure Investment Strategy for Local Projects
LACERA expands its analysis of alternative investment strategies to engage with the real asset class for the first time.
News
Los Angeles Lays Out Tentative Strategy for First-Time Real Assets Portfolio
Pension picks up infrastructure for the first time, and forms a new inaugural ‘real assets’ strategy.
CPPIB Announces First Indonesian Infrastructure Investment
Fund to buy a 45% stake in one of the Asian nation’s top toll roads.
NEST Picks Private Market Managers
UK’s $9.9 billion DC plan expects first capital to deploy in October as it prepares to enter unlisted markets.
Newsmakers
Ontario Teachers Tags With Alphabet to Launch Tech-based Infrastructure Company
New firm spun out of Google parent’s urban innovation business.
Italian Fund to Add Infrastructure, Real Estate
Solidarietà Veneto’s private market experience helped build confidence in beefing up alts exposure.
Alternatives
New York Continues Big Push into Infrastructure, Hand-in-Hand with Blackstone
Emerging markets, private equity get additional attention from one of the country’s largest pensions.
Market Drilldown
Is China Unstoppable?
The world’s second-largest economy seems destined to overtake the US over the next decade. At the same time, its growth rate is slowing.
Newsmakers
CalPERS Strikes Gold in Gatwick Airport Investment
Initial $155 million investment nine years ago now worth more than $1.24 billion.