Performance

Latest study by EDHECinfra and the GI Hub shows 80% of investors want to increase their allocation to the asset class, but are doing so ‘without a compass’.

Once a niche, renewables investing has exploded. Anish Butani, bfinance’s private markets director, examines the risk-return spectrum and the challenges posed by ESG and the end of subsidies

The fund manager triumphed across a range of regions and sectors, not to mention our global fundraising and fund manager categories. Antin and GIP are two of the other stand-outs of our 10th global awards.

The asset class generated a 12.5% return and the allocation could be increased, CIO Claus Stampe tells us, despite recent local watchdog censure on infrastructure investments.

Private market returns including infrastructure dipped slightly for the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System but offset steeper losses suffered in a volatile year of public trading, the Canadian pension said in annual results published this week. Investments in private equity, real estate and infrastructure generated a combined 10.7 percent in 2018, down by nearly a […]

Thanks to a weak Australian dollar and increased valuations, the fund’s infra allocation has increased to 8.5% of its overall portfolio.

The shortcomings of available performance data are making public market equivalents a more attractive benchmark.

'How can you have a $7bn business where performance has been very strong over 20 years, then have to shut the thing down?' asked one former director. We take a look at how it got to this point and the lessons learnt.

Brookfield Infrastructure pointed to key investments in energy assets and data centres during its third-quarter earnings call as a hint to where the company is most likely to deploy capital in the coming decade. Sam Pollock, chief executive of the listed infrastructure subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, said it will be “an even battle” between […]

The €23bn Danish pension's director of private investments, Kasper Struve, is comfortable with such investments so long as they pass the ‘infrastructure test’.