Allocations

The country’s institutional investors will increase infrastructure allocations this year, but currency risk is steering them away from US investments.

The $18.5bn public pension fund recently approved commitments of up to $50 million each to IFM Global Infrastructure Fund and to JPMorgan Infrastructure Investments Fund.

The categorisation of infrastructure is more down to the returns generated, delegates in Berlin heard.

Over 450 LPs are set to attend our flagship event, starting tomorrow in Berlin. We polled a selection to find out how they're allocating to infra, what strategies are catching their eye and what concerns them the most about the asset class.

The US endowment's infra allocation is now up to $650m as MIRA’s vehicle nears its $3.25bn target.

This LP profile made almost 950 commitments to various private vehicles last year.

BlackRock's Eric Wu believes Asian investors will become major global players in two to three years' time. Hear more from Manulife Capital, GMR, the Japan Fund for Information and Communication Technology and others in our two-minute video recap from last year's Hong Kong Summit.

A survey by the asset manager shows institutional investors intend to reallocate to private markets, with interest in active management strategies to help mitigate market risks.

Twenty-nine investors from Europe and the Middle East contributed $2.15bn to the total over the past year-and-a-half.

While no one can dispute that infrastructure, as an asset class, has arrived, the labels used to segment the market – as well as the strategies they symbolise – can spark some passionate debate.