Powered by MOMENTUM MEDIA
moneymanagement logo
 
 

Whitehelm launches infrastructure fund in Australia

infrastructure/infrastructure-fund/Fidante-Partners/Challenger-Limited/

30 August 2019
| By Oksana Patron |
image
image image
expand image

Whitehelm Capital, an infrastructure investment specialist, has launched an Australia-domiciled version of its Europe-based Listed Core Infrastructure Fund.

The new Australian Whitehelm Listed Core Infrastructure Fund – Unhedged would be a benchmark unaware strategy aimed to return OECD CPI plus 5% per annum with a minimum investment of $10,000.

The firm said the fund would be investing in global core infrastructure assets such as airports, toll roads and rail roads as well as water, gas and electricity utilities.

However, it would avoid any investments in power producers and retailers with exposure to volume and pricing risk and it would not invest in sectors such as logistics and shipping companies with typically low margins and more volatile earnings.

“The fund aims to be the ideal defensive component of a balanced retail investor’s portfolio. It is more defensive than listed property and most global peer funds. The fund also offers greater risk diversification and a lower correlation to broad equity markets than most peer funds, with a low 0.6 beta to global stocks markets, and a high degree of drawdown protection,” Whitehelm’s Canberra-based portfolio manager, Ursula Tonkin, said.

“All of these factors, along with its stable cash yield make it a very attractive vehicle for retail investors.”

Whitehelm, which is an independently-owned specialist infrastructure manager with more than 60 staff in Australia and Europe, and has currently $4.9 billion in funds under management and $18.1 billion of funds under advice.

The firm was 70% owned by staff and 30% owned by Fidante Partners, the boutique funds management business of Challenger Limited.

Read more about:

AUTHOR

Recommended for you

sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...

3 weeks 2 days ago

It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...

4 weeks 2 days ago

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

7 months ago

After last month’s surprise hold, the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its latest interest rate decision....

3 weeks 4 days ago

WT Financial’s Keith Cullen is eager for its Hubco initiative to see advice firms under its licence trade at multiples which are catching up to those UK and US financial ...

4 weeks 1 day ago

While the profession continues to see consolidation at the top, Adviser Ratings has compared the business models of Insignia and Entireti and how they are shaping the pro...

1 week 3 days ago

TOP PERFORMING FUNDS

ACS FIXED INT - AUSTRALIA/GLOBAL BOND