
Alastair O'Dell
PMP’s Core Infrastructure Summit report
PMP brought together leading institutional investors, asset managers and market experts to discuss the outlook for core infrastructure, including opportunities in waste to energy assets and digital infrastructure

Aon MasterTrust embarks on its private markets journey
CIO explains the scheme’s plans to introduce private markets to its default funds, using new LTAFs to balance liquidity, cost and impact

Running on: DB schemes extend their investment horizons
Improved funding and lighter regulation are prompting well-funded pension schemes to delay buyout and pursue longer-term allocations to private credit, infrastructure debt and other illiquids

UK pension funds rethink their endgames
Van Lanschot Kempen’s Jonathan Craddock and Alastair Greenlees discuss why more UK DB pension schemes are opting to ‘run on’ rather than seek a buyout and what this means for allocations to private markets

GLIL reflects on a decade in infrastructure
The collaborative partnership has expanded to become a leading vehicle for UK pension funds to make long-term investments in UK infrastructure Ten years after…

Partnerships for a better UK
Better Society Capital’s Aman Johal speaks to PMP about how social outcomes partnerships create real-world impacts and why the government’s new Better Futures Fund will reenergise the sector

LGPS Central on overcoming pooling challenges
Private markets head Nadeem Hussain talks to PMP about transitioning legacy assets and the LGPS investment pool’s next steps to optimise its strategies

UK VC needs scale-up firepower to retain innovation
Aviva and L&G highlight risks of losing value overseas while others call for cultural change and government support

UK climate tech VC start-ups prove commercial case
Net-zero tech drives high-quality job creation and productivity, as investors back-deep tech solutions across the energy transition

DC industry formulates solutions to VC challenges
Consultants offer different perspectives on fund structures, educational requirements and the suitability of opportunities

Bridging the clean energy scale-up gap
Octopus Energy Generations’s Zoe Reich speaks to PMP about why the next phase of the energy transition depends on investment in technology and why investors should view it as a commercial opportunity rather than a policy-driven necessity.

Seizing opportunities in the net-zero economy
Beverley Gower-Jones, managing partner of Clean Growth Fund, talks to PMP about the scale of the clean economy, the investment opportunities, and why innovation…
