This study provides an overview of UK infrastructure investment and finance in an international context, yielding interesting facts insights for both investors and policy makers worldwide. The UK is one of the leading countries in terms of private sector involvement in infrastructure, with...

With a rapidly aging population, Portugal faces some serious pension challenges including a Social Security system which is under pressure, and pension benefits gradually approaching levels that will require individuals to supplement Social Security with private savings. In addition, Portugal...

Adam S. Wallwork is an attorney in the public finance and tax departments of Ballard Spahr LLP in Washington, D.C. In this article, Wallwork shows how tax reform has affected the municipal bond market and why Republicans should care

The last weeks of 2018 have set new records in net new institutional investment flows into infrastructure funds, with more generalist private equity and investment management players joining this strategic asset class par excellence, as the trend is likely to continue well into 2019 – 2020.The...

Explication of reality may draw tools outside the phenomenon. That is the essence of case study, and the epistemological motivation of this paper. The paper illuminates the space of PPP policy in the UK. Yet, that illumination raises questions that stand to guide other countries, and the paper...

The sixth annual World Pensions Forum was held on 23-24 February 2017 at the Queen's House in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.Over 120 representatives attended: from pension and sovereign funds, central banks and government agencies including financial regulators. Topics discussed included...

This study discusses the role of institutional investors in financing infrastructure in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). It analyzes the present level of involvement as well as the future investment potential of new financing sources such as public and private pension funds,...

A report prepared for EMEAP by Marlene Amstad, Steven Kong, Frank Packer and Eli Remolona at the request of Mr Grant Spencer, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and Chair of the EMEAP Working Group on Financial Markets.The eight local currency bond markets in which the Asian Bond...

Two nodes are salient in the space of Africa's development. The first is a concern about population explosion harking back the sixties. The other is infrastructure, particularly at the unfolding of the new millennium. The two concerns have captivated the world of international development –...

This report discusses key issues around the mobilization of private capital for development. Investment requirements are huge, especially for infrastructure, climate and other SDG-related investments. External finance for developing countries stagnated in the years before the pandemic, followed...