Infrastructure
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More investment in UK infrastructure: are pooled funds the answer?
Chris Lewin of the IFoA’s Infrastructure Working Party explores the UK government’s options for getting more investment into UK infrastructure
Roundtable: infrastructure investment and public private partnerships
This roundtable discussion brought together senior individuals with extensive experience of infrastructure projects involving both the public and private sectors. They included Treasury officials, investors from pension funds and insurance firms, project managers, consultants, and the chair and members of the IFoA Infrastructure Working Party (IWP). This note summarises the discussion and ends with some agreed recommendations for government. The roundtable was held at Staple Inn Hall, London, on 30 April 2025.
Climate change and infrastructure: investment implications for the next 20 years
Anisha Bilala from the IFoA Infrastructure Working Party argues that institutional investors will place a greater financial value on infrastructure projects if they demonstrate climate change resilience. In her paper ‘Climate change and infrastructure: investment implications for the next 20 years’ she also describes ways in which some investors are seeking to influence corporate climate strategies.
Managing infrastructure resilience
Here Chris Lewin of the IFoA’s Infrastructure Working Party aims to stimulate strategic thinking about resilience by those who plan infrastructure and those who run it once in operation.
Guest blog: Could the consequences of climate change frustrate our ability to tackle its causes?
The IFoA’s report ‘Climate Scorpion: the sting is in the tail’ highlighted not only the tail risks but the potential for positive tipping points – acceleration of positive trends. But it’s important not to be overly optimistic about our prospects.
Past Sustainability Board chairs Nick Spencer and Sandy Trust asked leading academics Laurie Laybourne and Ben Shread-Hewitt at the Strategic Climate Risks Initiative to outline ‘derailment risk’. What if the physical impacts of climate change do not accelerate our progress to a low-carbon, stable climate future, but act as a barrier against it?
This is an important ‘third rail’ that actuaries should be aware of in their policy and future pathway projections.
The risk is not just volatility: it is irreversibility
Emily Forsyth-Davies, member of the IFoA’s Sustainability Board, explains why she believes our new report ‘Planetary Solvency: Tipping into the wild unknown’ is so important.
Meeting global net zero: how equipped is the USA’s investment market?
This is part of a series of blogs exploring the investment markets in some of the largest greenhouse gas emitting countries outside the UK and EU. We delve into how these investment markets are supporting the net zero transition. Here, Randall Ramsahai and Saskia Praill tackle the USA.
India: the road to net zero by 2070
This is part of a series of blogs exploring the investment markets in some of the largest greenhouse gas emitting countries outside the UK and EU. We delve into how these investment markets are supporting the net zero transition. Here, Neha Agarwala examines India’s progress.
Net zero investing in Brazil
This is part of a series of blogs exploring the investment markets in some of the largest greenhouse gas emitting countries outside the UK and EU. We delve into how these investment markets are supporting the net zero transition. Here, Martin Earle explores net zero challenges and opportunities in the world’s seventh largest economy: Brazil.
How are green bonds helping China’s efforts to achieve net zero?
This is part of a series of blogs about net zero investment in different regions of the world outside of UK and EU. We explore how different countries are approaching the net zero transition and the investment markets that exist to support this. Here, Randall Ramsahai focuses on China.