News / New investors have a war-chest of $1trn to spend on European infrastructure

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A new wave of investment in Europe’s freight infrastructure could be about to be unleashed, according to new research recently released by law firm Linklaters.

The company, which commissioned research firm Oxford Analytica to undertake the study, said that institutional investors such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurers had collectively drawn up a US$1 trillion war-chest, earmarked for European infrastructure projects over the next decade.

While the waves of financial crises that have beset the region since 2008 have led ...