In this highly volatile times, how can you secure your capital and where is it safe to invest our hard earned money ?
Infrastructure is something that professional funds like pension funds are moving their money into, and I am showing some specific funds that invest in essential infrastructure and public-private finance deals to provide an income too.
The return (yield) can be between 4 and 6% easily beat returns on most deposit accounts. The rent, tolls or usage fees for the infrastructure asset are often linked to inflation, which boost income
With governments unable to pay for new roads, hospitals, bridges, tunnels, schools, public sector facilities etc etc, the governing authorities are looking for private partners to help pay to replace ageing infrastructure.
Thus infrastructure funds could “bridge” that public sector funding gap.
These funds give predictable cash flows, often in highly regulated markets, and this provides a good, inflation-linked income stream. While infrastructure investment funds are a new source of income they are also investing in hard assets rather than paper financial assets.
Have a look at 3i Infrastructure, HICL Infrastructure, John Laing Infrastructure, Macquarie Infrastructure and First State Infrastructure.
[http://www.3i-infrastructure.com/]
[http://www.hicl.com/]
[http://www.jlif.com]
[http://www.macquarie.com/uk/infra/index.htm]
[http://www.firststate.co.uk/ListedInfrastructureEnGB.aspx]

They all offer a healthy dividend in these low interest rate times, and hold their investments in hard assets like bridges, roads, hospitals etc.  An asset class that is physical.
An interesting little snippet, when one looks at 3i Infrastructure:
Question: Guess who is one of the largest shareholders, with 3.48% of all the shares?
Answer: The BT Pension Fund (Hermes Invesment Management)
[http://tools.morningstar.co.uk/t92wz0sj7c/stockreport/default.aspx?tab=6&SecurityToken=0P0000ATL8%5D3%5D0%5DE0EXG$XLON&Id=0P0000ATL8&ClientFund=0&CurrencyId=GBP]