Downing Fund Managers has launched a new listed infrastructure fund, VT Downing Listed Infrastructure Income Fund, structured as an open-end investment company.
VT Downing Listed Infrastructure Income Fund focuses on infrastructure and renewable-energy investment trusts listed on the London Stock Exchange. These trusts are typically in operational infrastructure and renewable-energy assets that provide essential services to economies and societies.
VT Downing Listed Infrastructure Income Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of trusts in one or more of five areas: utilities, renewable energy, social infrastructure, transport and digital infrastructure.
“This fund opens up the asset class to a much wider investor base,” said Judith MacKenzie, head of Downing Fund Managers. “Traditionally, infrastructure has been offered in private, unlisted funds where capital is tied up anywhere from five to 10-plus years and was only accessible to large institutional in
