The following article is the sixth of several excerpts that will appear in i3 from U.K. Infrastructure Investment and Finance from a European and Global Perspective. The report with footnotes and references is available at www.georginderst.com or the SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2972704. This study provides an overview of the financing of infrastructure investment in the United Kingdom in a European, global and historical context. The sixth excerpt from the report focuses on infrastructure policy in the United Kingdom.

Institutional investors, investment managers, consultants and service providers met in Toronto for VIP Infrastructure (formerly i3) in June to take stock of the market for global infrastructure investment. The attendees were primarily institutional investors such as pensions, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds (60), investment managers (66) and consultants (21). The key takeaway from the group was — disruption.

Quick now. Everyone send a wish to the infrastructure spirits that the fundraising seen in the first half of 2018 continues on pace. If it does, we could be looking at a record-breaking year. At the very least, we should be seeing one of the best years in many. Infrastructure funds closing in the first half of 2018 raised $34.8 billion. This is just a bit more than the $34.1 billion raised in the first half of 2017.

i3 senior editor Drew Campbell discusses infrastructure policy in the United States with 32 Advisors’ head of infrastructure, Michael Likosky.