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Success benchmarked: Initial forays into infrastructure investment benchmarks are producing results
- May 1, 2018: Vol. 11, Number 5

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Success benchmarked: Initial forays into infrastructure investment benchmarks are producing results

by Andrea Zander

The appetite among prominent global investors for investments in infrastructure is growing, and it is helping to drive growth in infrastructure investments across the globe. The Global Infrastructure Hub and Oxford Economics estimate that governments across the world will need to spend more than $94 trillion by 2040 to keep pace with profound economic and demographic changes.

In responding to the demand, the world’s biggest pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds have increased allocations to infrastructure investments as they search for yield, seek to diversify portfolios and add liability-matching assets to their portfolios.

Approximately 60 percent of these investors expect to increase allocations to infrastructure and renewables, according to BlackRock’s “2018 Global Institutional Rebalancing Survey,” which surveyed 224 global institutional investors. And more than $200 billion has been raised by specialist global infrastructure funds since 2006

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