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The Potential of Private Institutional Investors for Financing Transport Infrastructure

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  • Rajiv Sharma

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It is widely held that large institutional investors such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds with long term liabilities and a low risk appetite are ideally suited to invest in transportation infrastructure assets. Despite the theoretical ideal match between a large source of capital and an asset class in need of investment, the uptake of institutional investors has been slow. This has been due to bad experiences with early investments and the uncertainty associated with investing in some transportation infrastructure assets...

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  • Rajiv Sharma, 2013. "The Potential of Private Institutional Investors for Financing Transport Infrastructure," International Transport Forum Discussion Papers 2013/14, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:itfaab:2013/14-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5k46bj481jjh-en
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    1. Laura Deruytter & Ben Derudder, 2019. "Keeping financialisation under the radar: Brussels Airport, Macquarie Bank and the Belgian politics of privatised infrastructure," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(7), pages 1347-1367, May.
    2. Wouter Thierie & Lieven Moor, 2016. "The characteristics of infrastructure as an investment class," Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, Springer;Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, vol. 30(3), pages 277-297, August.

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