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Infrastructure
Infrastructure debt’s growing role in LGPS portfolios
As schemes seek resilient income and greater diversification, infrastructure debt is emerging as a compelling way to access long-term returns while helping to manage portfolio risk
Built for yesterday’s climate
Why physical climate resilience is becoming part of prudent infrastructure underwriting. By Rhyadd Keaney-Watkins, Managing Director and Head of ESG.
Cultivating a Welsh investment ‘terroir’
Development Bank of Wales chair Sally Bridgeland argues the nation should play to its natural strengths and nurture a distinctive investment ecosystem capable of supporting sustainable economic growth. She speaks to Alastair O’Dell.
Catalysing Scotland’s investment future
Eddie McAvinchey, Scotland director at the National Wealth Fund, explains the role institutional investors can play in infrastructure and renewable energy and where he sees Scotland’s greatest investment opportunities.
Real assets move into DC growth portfolios
Infrastructure and real estate are increasingly being viewed as growth assets rather than portfolio diversifiers, with investors arguing they can play a much larger role in improving long-term retirement outcomes.
UK productive finance presents untapped opportunities
The challenge is ensuring domestic DC pension capital participates in the growth of British businesses.
Energy investors shift focus to demand-side assets
Infrastructure investors are increasingly targeting batteries, heat pumps and data centres as volatile power markets, electrification and rising digital demand reshape the infrastructure landscape.
Brunel’s legacy
As Brunel Pension Partnership prepares to disband, private markets portfolio manager Jaime Alvarez-Dominguez reflects on the challenges it faced, what it achieved and lessons for the next phase of LGPS consolidation.
Railpen’s Anna Rule on private markets and pensions policy
Private Markets Profile caught up with Anna Rule to discuss the main talking points of the Pensions UK Investment Conference
Inside Mercer’s blueprint for private markets in DC
From co-investment-heavy portfolios to equity-based liquidity management, Mercer is using scale across its DC platform to embed private markets into its default strategy. Mercer…
Reconsidering private markets for DC decumulation
Investors are exploring where private markets can add value in the retirement phase of defined contribution pension schemes – and where the industry risks applying accumulation-stage thinking to a fundamentally different problem.
