Kuwait pension fund plans to triple infrastructure investments

Kuwait pension fund plans to triple infrastructure investments

Kuwait's $112bn pension fund is looking to more than triple investments in infrastructure as part of its asset-allocation strategy over the next couple of years.

“In infrastructure, we're looking to build up aggressively,” Meshal Al-Othman, director general of the Public Institution for Social Security (PIFSS), said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday. “We're at 3 per cent today. We're taking that up to roughly 10 per cent.”

It will also “slightly increase” investments in hedge funds and real estate, he said.

Al-Othman is part of a