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\n<\/span><\/p>\nThe world economy needs more long-term investment in infrastructure and low-carbon projects, but funds are getting tighter, says the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n
The ability to make long-term investments is shrinking while the need for long-term capital is increasing, says a WEF report. <\/p>\n
Regulatory pressures and mark-to-market accounting are not helping, it adds.<\/p>\n
A steering committee of 19 industry practitioners, including pension fund executives, helped compile the report.<\/p>\n
It found that there were what it described as “considerable internal challenges” that must be overcome when making long-term investments.<\/p>\n
For example, many institutions have short-term financial obligations that must be funded with short-term investments, hampering their ability to spread the money out for the longer term.<\/p>\n
One of the steering committee members, Angelien Kemna, who is chief investment officer for APG All Pensions Group, said: “Having to account for mark-to-market price changes for assets that we do not intend to sell for many decades makes it harder for us to hold these assets through a market downturn.”<\/p>\n
Mark-to-market is a method of valuing assets which takes into account the current price, rather than the price paid for it at the time, or its worth at a fixed point in the future.<\/p>\n
The director and head of investors’ industries at the World Economic Forum, Max von Bismarck, said: “The world is looking to long-term investors to help fund projects such as infrastructure that have historically been funded by governments. <\/p>\n
“However, these investors are increasingly unable to meet these needs.”<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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