A simple way of backing infrastructure

While not the easiest to understand, infrastructure as an investment area has ballooned in size. David C Stevenson looks at a new fund to play the sector.

Every so often I come across an idea so smart, yet so simple, that it makes me wonder why no one has had it before. The VT UK Infrastructure Income fund is one such idea. It enables you to invest across the whole infrastructure arena via just one fund.

Infrastructure as an investment area has ballooned in size in recent years using data from Numis, I reckon that, if you take the broadest definition, infrastructure funds now hold about £14bn worth of assets, paying out £700m in dividends for an average yield across the sector of about 5% which is what attracts most investors, I suspect.

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.