IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/jpropr/v30y2013i2p103-127.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

How much into infrastructure? Evidence from dynamic asset allocation

Author

Listed:
  • Tobias Dechant
  • Konrad Finkenzeller

Abstract

This paper investigates the role of direct infrastructure in a multi-asset portfolio by employing a US transaction-based index which covers the period Q2 1990--Q2 2010. We determine time-varying asset allocations using a mean-variance as well as a mean-downside risk optimisation algorithm and show that infrastructure plays an important role in both models. It is allocated predominantly to portfolios that exhibit low-to-medium risk with maximum allocations of 32 and 28%, respectively. With increasing investment horizons, infrastructure is also attractive to investors who aim at earning higher returns, and especially to those who wish to protect low-expected-return portfolios from downside risk. As infrastructure and large cap stocks are highly correlated over longer investment horizons, the allocation to infrastructure is sensitive to whether large cap stocks are allocated to the portfolio. Furthermore, we find that infrastructure is not a substitute for real estate.

Suggested Citation

  • Tobias Dechant & Konrad Finkenzeller, 2013. "How much into infrastructure? Evidence from dynamic asset allocation," Journal of Property Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(2), pages 103-127, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jpropr:v:30:y:2013:i:2:p:103-127
    DOI: 10.1080/09599916.2012.731075
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/09599916.2012.731075
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/09599916.2012.731075?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Liang Peng, 2001. "Building A Venture Capital Index," Yale School of Management Working Papers ysm221, Yale School of Management, revised 01 Oct 2001.
    2. Georg Inderst, 2009. "Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure," OECD Working Papers on Insurance and Private Pensions 32, OECD Publishing.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Surbhi Gupta & Anil Kumar Sharma, 2022. "Evolution of infrastructure as an asset class: a systematic literature review and thematic analysis," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 23(3), pages 173-200, May.
    2. Daniel Wurstbauer & Wolfgang Schäfers, 2015. "Inflation hedging and protection characteristics of infrastructure and real estate assets," Journal of Property Investment & Finance, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 33(1), pages 19-44, February.
    3. Louis Chakkalakal & Ulrich Hommel & Wenwei Li, 2018. "Transport infrastructure equities in mixed-asset portfolios: estimating risk with a Garch-Copula CVaR model," Journal of Property Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 35(2), pages 117-138, April.
    4. Muhammad Jufri Marzuki & Graeme Newell, 2020. "The investment opportunities in the innovation-led listed satellite and telecommunication infrastructure sectors," Journal of Property Investment & Finance, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 39(3), pages 223-238, April.
    5. Muhammad Jufri Marzuki & Graeme Newell, 2020. "A global investment opportunity in non-listed infrastructure for institutional investors," Journal of Property Investment & Finance, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 39(3), pages 239-255, May.
    6. Zaghum Umar & Adam Zaremba & Ammar Ali Gull & Tatiana Sokolova, 2024. "Beyond traditional financial asset classes: The demand for infrastructure in a multi‐period asset allocation framework," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 29(3), pages 2581-2592, July.
    7. Michael Heinrich & Thomas Schreck, 2017. "Effects of Solvency II on Portfolio Efficiency, The Case of Real Estate and Infrastructure Investments," LARES lares_2017_paper_8, Latin American Real Estate Society (LARES).
    8. Wouter Thierie & Lieven Moor, 2016. "The characteristics of infrastructure as an investment class," Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, Springer;Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, vol. 30(3), pages 277-297, August.
    9. Frédéric Blanc-Brude & Timothy Whittaker & Simon Wilde, 2017. "Searching for a listed infrastructure asset class using mean–variance spanning," Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, Springer;Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, vol. 31(2), pages 137-179, May.
    10. Graeme Newell, 2021. "Future research opportunities for Asian real estate," International Journal of Urban Sciences, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(2), pages 272-290, April.
    11. Tanzeem Hasnat, 2021. "Infrastructure Equity and Firm Performance in India," Millennial Asia, , vol. 12(1), pages 97-115, April.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Daniel Wurstbauer & Wolfgang Schäfers, 2015. "Inflation hedging and protection characteristics of infrastructure and real estate assets," Journal of Property Investment & Finance, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 33(1), pages 19-44, February.
    2. Torsten Ehlers, 2014. "Understanding the challenges for infrastructure finance," BIS Working Papers 454, Bank for International Settlements.
    3. Nadine Gatzert & Thomas Kosub, 2017. "The Impact of European Initiatives on the Treatment of Insurers’ Infrastructure Investments Under Solvency II," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 42(4), pages 708-731, October.
    4. Nadine Gatzert & Thomas Kosub, 2014. "Insurers’ Investment in Infrastructure: Overview and Treatment under Solvency II," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 39(2), pages 351-372, April.
    5. Cochrane, John H., 2005. "The risk and return of venture capital," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 75(1), pages 3-52, January.
    6. Riham Shendy & Zachary Kaplan & Peter Mousley, 2011. "Toward Better Infrastructure : Conditions, Constraints, and Opportunities in Financing Public-Private Partnerships in Select African Countries," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 2331.
    7. Inderst, Georg, 2020. "Social Infrastructure Finance and Institutional Investors. A Global Perspective," MPRA Paper 99239, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    8. Surbhi Gupta & Anil Kumar Sharma, 2022. "Evolution of infrastructure as an asset class: a systematic literature review and thematic analysis," Journal of Asset Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 23(3), pages 173-200, May.
    9. Wouter Thierie & Lieven Moor, 2016. "The characteristics of infrastructure as an investment class," Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, Springer;Swiss Society for Financial Market Research, vol. 30(3), pages 277-297, August.
    10. David Large & Ahmad Teymouri, 2023. "A Review of Funding and Financing Models for Infrastructure Corridor Megaprojects, and Implications for the Canadian Northern Corridor," SPP Research Papers, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, vol. 16(13), April.
    11. Bianchi, Robert J. & Bornholt, Graham & Drew, Michael E. & Howard, Michael F., 2014. "Long-term U.S. infrastructure returns and portfolio selection," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 314-325.
    12. Daniel Wurstbauer & Stephan Lang & Christoph Rothballer & Wolfgang Schaefers, 2016. "Can common risk factors explain infrastructure equity returns? Evidence from European capital markets," Journal of Property Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(2), pages 97-120, April.
    13. Grelck, Michael B. & Prigge, Stefan & Tegtmeier, Lars & Topalov, Mihail & Torpan, Igor, 2010. "Investing in times of inflation fears: Diversification properties of investments in liquid real assets," Working Paper Series 03/2010, Hamburg School of Business Administration (HSBA).
    14. Thierry Theurillat, 2011. "La ville négociée : entre financiarisation et durabilité," Géographie, économie, société, Lavoisier, vol. 13(3), pages 225-254.
    15. Georg Inderst & Raffaele Della Croce, 2013. "Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure: A Comparison Between Australia and Canada," OECD Working Papers on Finance, Insurance and Private Pensions 32, OECD Publishing.
    16. Javier Alonso & Alfonso Arellano & David Tuesta, 2016. "Pension fund investments in infrastructure and the global financial regulation," Working Papers 16/19, BBVA Bank, Economic Research Department.
    17. Cumming, Douglas J. & MacIntosh, Jeffrey G., 2006. "Crowding out private equity: Canadian evidence," Journal of Business Venturing, Elsevier, vol. 21(5), pages 569-609, September.
    18. Ron Bird & Harry Liem & Susan Thorp, 2014. "Infrastructure: Real Assets and Real Returns," European Financial Management, European Financial Management Association, vol. 20(4), pages 802-824, September.
    19. Bitsch, Florian, 2012. "Do investors value cash flow stability of listed infrastructure funds?," CEFS Working Paper Series 2012-01, Technische Universität München (TUM), Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies (CEFS).
    20. Inderst, Georg & Stewart, Fiona, 2014. "Institutional Investment in Infrastructure in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies," MPRA Paper 62522, University Library of Munich, Germany.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:jpropr:v:30:y:2013:i:2:p:103-127. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RJPR20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.