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The Australian manager takes a big step towards its $3bn target amid a record year for fundraising.

A smaller number of larger funds are raising ever more capital, with follow-on vehicles for the top players roughly doubling in size with each new iteration.

The firm will invest 20% of the new vehicle outside Europe, strongly targeting the US, where it is exploring the possibility of raising a dedicated fund.

CIO Jang Dong-hun is concerned these investments might prove harder to exit, expresses a preference for publicly regulated assets and recalls a bad experience with crematoriums in Korea.

Patrick Samson, the Canadian pension's head of infrastructure, tells us he doesn't exclude some 'bumps related to Brexit', but is bullish on the long term, as GLIL Infrastructure, First State Super and Cbus join the deal.

Rachel Fletcher’s intervention comes a day after the regulator was accused by MPs of favouring companies over consumers.

Tim Treharne’s responsibilities have largely been transitioned internally to Matthieu Muzumdar, who stepped up to the role in February.

We look ahead to 2019 and, using data from 50 managers, break down the cost of different strategies, highlight sticky terms and show how fee leakage reveals costs beyond the gross-to-net IRR spread.

A lack of reporting standardisation is now widely seen as obstacle number one.

Two Canadian pensions funds have invested in Pacifico Sur, a 309-kilometer Mexican toll road that is poised to benefit from increased regional trade as well as tourism-driven light traffic, underscoring the attractiveness of transportation assets in growth markets  for long-term institutional investors. The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan together purchased […]