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It was last week (late June) that HM Government announced major infrastructure investment in the region of \u00a3100 Billion<\/p>\n
[https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/infrastructure-uk<\/a>]<\/p>\n It effectively is a Keynesian view to spend our way out of recession and kick start growth.<\/p>\n [https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/investing-in-britains-future<\/a>]<\/p>\n The reality is like in the USA and continental Europe, infrastructure investment has been a low government\u00a0priority, and we see aging bridges, old train lines that lack passenger capacity, so there is a real need to build new infrastructure, reduce overcrowding, replace ailing infrastructure and create prosperity too.<\/p>\n Already in the UK, there are FTSE listed companies specialising in infrastructure:<\/p>\n John Laing Infrastructure:[http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?csi=2510086&action=<\/a>] GCP Infrastructure: [http:\/\/www.shareshop.hsbc.co.uk\/shareshop\/security.cgi?csi=2484512&action=<\/a> Also there are funds that invest in Infrastructure: Also there are now specialist investment managers specialing in Infrastructure, like Infracapital. The facts are simple, about 65% of the UK\u2019s infrastructure is already privately financed and with Government spending under massive pressure, HM Government has to ask the private sector to undertake infrastructure investment, and funding will come from companies and funds to undertake this investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was last week (late June) that HM Government announced major infrastructure investment in the region of \u00a3100 Billion [https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/infrastructure-uk] It effectively is a Keynesian view to spend our way out of recession and kick start growth. [https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/investing-in-britains-future] The reality is like in the USA and continental Europe, infrastructure investment has been a low […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asadkarim.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGives a 5% yield from its juicy dividend.<\/p>\n
\nGives a 6% yield from its\u00a0delicious dividend.<\/p>\n
\nFirst State Global Listed Infrastructure [http:\/\/www.firststate.co.uk\/uk\/private\/Funds\/Global_Listed_Infrastructure\/<\/a>] that invests in companies like National Grid, Crown Castle International, Scottish and Southern Energy as just three names in the fund.<\/p>\n
\n[http:\/\/www.infracapital.co.uk\/<\/a>]
\nThey are a part of M&G Investments [wwww.mandg.co.uk<\/a>] who are a owned by Prudential [www.pru.co.uk<\/a>] the UK insurance giant.<\/p>\n