Global Investor 30 - now open for submissions!

Global Investor 30 is Infrastructure Investor’s new annual ranking, featuring the world’s largest institutional investors in infrastructure.
Global Investor 30

The ranking is based on the market value of investors’ private infrastructure investment portfolios both through third-party managed investment vehicles and direct investments. This market value is measured at a single point in time for all investors to provide an apples-to-apples comparison.
For the 2019 ranking, this is 31 March 2019.

This is a ranking of investors only. The ranking excludes fund of funds, infrastructure management firms and organisations that manage assets on behalf of third parties.

This is what we need to know about your organisation:

• Total AUM as of 31 March 2019
• Allocation to infrastructure investments (percentage) as of 31 March 2019

We will accept submissions by email until 12.00 BST 15 July. Please send them to nicole.d@peimedia.com with GLOBAL INVESTOR 30 in the subject line.

All submissions are confidential and will be used to put your firm forwards for Global Investor 30. The only information shown in the ranking is the firm name and the total allocations to infrastructure investments on 31 March 2019.

We give highest priority to information that we receive from or confirm directly with investment firms. When firms send us information, we seek to ‘trust but verify’. Some details simply cannot be verified by us, and in these cases, we defer to the honour system. In order to encourage co-operation from the firms, we do not disclose which firms have aided us on the background and which have not.

If we cannot confirm our information with firms, we seek to corroborate information using firms’ websites, press releases, limited partner disclosures, etc.

– Infrastructure
The definition of infrastructure investment, for the purposes of this ranking, is: investments in man-made facilities that enable any economy to operate. This can be segmented further into three broad types: transportation (railways, roads and airports), utilities (energy generation and distribution, water and waste processing and telecommunications) and social infrastructure (schools, hospitals and state housing). Assets must be tangible and physical, whether existing (brownfield) or those in the development phase (greenfield) that are expected to exhibit stable, predictable cashflows over a long-term investment horizon.
Where the investments are made in what may be termed the “grey area” between infrastructure and private equity, we reserve the right to make the final judgment based on applicability according to our definition.
We understand that investors’ definition of infrastructure may not entirely mirror the definition given above. Hence, we will use discretion to determine the most appropriate figure for each investor profiled.

– Market value of infrastructure portfolio
The market value of the investment portfolio covers capital definitively invested in infrastructure either directly or indirectly. In the case of direct investments, it means equity invested in infrastructure assets. In the case of indirect investments, it means equity invested via a private infrastructure investment vehicle such as a separate account, joint venture or commingled fund operated with discretion by a third party.

What counts?

Capital committed or invested through the following strategies should be included:

• Funds (both open-ended and closed-ended)
• Separately managed accounts
• Co-investment deals
• Joint ventures
• Direct investments
• Listed infrastructure

What does not count?

  • Expected commitments: we do not count pending or future commitments and investments or the uncommitted portion of an institution’s target allocation.
  • Commitments to funds or investment in assets that do not meet the core criteria of providing exposure to stable, predictable, long-term cashflow streams and which are not in-line with the definition of infrastructure provided above. For example, we do not count private equity-style energy investments.
  • Hedge funds: We do not count hedge fund strategies as these primarily rely on indirect investments such as listed securities that may have exposure to infrastructure assets, not the assets themselves.
  • Debt: we exclude all debt-focused vehicles and commitments, including mezzanine debt. Also, we do not count any lending originated directly by investors.
  • Private real estate: property used for commercial/business purposes such as offices, hotels, retail, and industrial. Also, multifamily/apartment properties and portfolios of single family houses assembled via an institutional platform.

Submit now

We accept submissions by email until 12.00 BST 15 July. Please send your complete submission to nicole.d@peimedia.com with GLOBAL INVESTOR 30 in the subject line.

Need assistance?

For further assistance please contact Nicole Douglas, Head of Investor Research at nicole.d@peimedia.com.

2019 Global Investor 30

The ranking will be published in Autumn 2019 on infrastructureinvestor.com and in the Infrastructure Investor’s 10th-anniversary publication.

We thank you for your assistance with Global Investor 30 and look forward to your submissions.

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