The Professional Investment Podcast
Aug 13, 2026 · 20 min · 8 segments
Watch or listen to the best of series six of The Professional Investment Podcast. This series we cover how the insurance industry will invest the forecast £550bn it will receive from closed DB…
Charlotte MooreHostInvestment Policy ExpertGuestPrivate Markets ExpertGuestSteveGuestPension Scheme Investment LeadGuestClimate Investment SpecialistGuestAlternative Assets SpecialistGuestSmart Pension Scheme RepresentativeGuest
I think there's going to be increasing pressure on asset managers, asset owners, asset managers between themselves, asset managers and asset owners working together, and even asset owners working together
to
form these strategic partnerships to help get capital in through the whole length lifetime of a project you know somebody who can take on more risk investing at the beginning somebody who can take on less risk investing at the end and getting like people to work together more effectively in that way i get the feeling that that is a kind of background ambition and we're seeing certain projects already doing that like i can't remember exactly what it's called but the rebuilding of the aqueduct in the north of england that's got money from nest and money from ppf for example so is that partnership part of your ambitious solution
it wasn't but i do like this idea um i i uh i do see more of that if you're thinking about investment in infrastructure and you're touching on natural infrastructure um as well as physical infrastructure and even you know of both green energy infrastructure um and i i do expect to see more collaboration between government and industry uh reassuring risk underwriting um to enable us to feel to enable private money to feel more confident and to deploy more to impact future economic growth so i can see that and for example some of the ppf assets if that could be considered quasi like government type money are willing to take a slightly different risk appetite because it exists for the collective.
You could see that kind of collaboration working between these major asset owners.
I think that's a positive thing.
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I think there's going to be increasing pressure on asset managers, asset owners, asset managers between themselves, asset managers and asset owners working together, and even asset owners working together
to
form these strategic partnerships to help get capital in through the whole length lifetime of a project you know somebody who can take on more risk investing at the beginning somebody who can take on less risk investing at the end and getting like people to work together more effectively in that way i get the feeling that that is a kind of background ambition and we're seeing certain projects already doing that like i can't remember exactly what it's called but the rebuilding of the aqueduct in the north of england that's got money from nest and money from ppf for example so is that partnership part of your ambitious solution
it wasn't but i do like this idea um i i uh i do see more of that if you're thinking about investment in infrastructure and you're touching on natural infrastructure um as well as physical infrastructure and even you know of both green energy infrastructure um and i i do expect to see more collaboration between government and industry uh reassuring risk underwriting um to enable us to feel to enable private money to feel more confident and to deploy more to impact future economic growth so i can see that and for example some of the ppf assets if that could be considered quasi like government type money are willing to take a slightly different risk appetite because it exists for the collective.
You could see that kind of collaboration working between these major asset owners.
I think that's a positive thing.