On November 14th the Collaboratory will host a private, invite-only workshop on Global Infrastructure Portfolio Construction.

The meeting is intended for the heads of infrastructure allocations at major pension funds, sovereign funds, and multilateral development institutions.

The purpose of the meeting it to:

• Review research conducted at the Collaboratory over the past 12 months to construct three different hypothetical globally and sectorally diversified infrastructure portfolios,
• Compare strategies and lessons learned between institutional investors who are now actively engaged in building globally diversified infrastructure portfolios,
• Learn from infrastructure funds about how they are thinking about portfolio construction at the fund level,
• Learn from the multilateral development institutions that have been setting-up internal fund of funds for infrastructure for a number of years,
• Review lessons learned from long-term research programs at Stanford University and Oxford University on infrastructure investment and governance,
• Discuss the challenges inherent in infrastructure investing and the areas where new research would be beneficial to the investment community,

Please contact the Executive Director if you would like more information.

Posted by rjorr at November 14, 2008 4:57 PM