13Perspectives on the investment industry

DOI: 10.1201/9781003396949-17

Pension funds around the world are adopting a direct investment approach to infrastructure and see this as comparable to investing in business.

(Ron Mock, former CEO of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan)

Discussions on investing in infrastructure quickly turn to the fund structures involved in sourcing, investing, and managing investment capital, as dealt with in the previous chapter. Unfortunately, not much is known about the management of these funds, other than what they choose to publish, despite them being the foundation upon which a large part of the business of investing in infrastructure is built. Fund managers who oversee these funds fall into three categories: ...

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