Pension funds shift toward infrastructure assets
Regulatory changes have widened the menu of long-duration investments available to managers.
Pension funds are gradually increasing their allocation to infrastructure, attracted by long-dated, inflation-linked cash flows.
Managers caution that the asset class demands specialist expertise in project selection and construction risk.
Even modest allocations represent a large pool of patient capital relative to the size of the domestic project pipeline.
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