Allocations

OMERS’ Annesley Wallace and Alastair Hall describe the pension’s aims to increase its best-in-class infra allocation from 20% to 25% by 2027, doubling its asset class AUM in the process.

The firm, which has to date mainly operated in New Zealand and Australia, has appointed 14 partners spanning APAC, Europe and the US.

Despite myriad economic shocks over the past decade, GPs have continued closing ever-larger funds as more LPs carve out space for resilient real assets.

The rise of infrastructure and inclusion of listed equities and private credit have revolutionised the concept of real assets. Investors must now take a more holistic approach to portfolios, says CBRE Investment Management’s head of client solutions Bernie McNamara.

Take a look at this year's report to see which LPs made the largest commitments in 2021 and which GPs were on the receiving end of these, as well as other insights into investor activity.

Allocations to infrastructure and real assets are expected to increase but it’s not just about protecting portfolios, Gresham House CEO Tony Dalwood argues.

Investors are left ‘none the wiser’ about the role infrastructure can play in their portfolios when using popular methods, EDHECinfra argues.

Infrastructure Investor’s LP Perspectives 2021 Study reveals a resilient LP community amid ongoing covid chaos.