APEC/OECD Seminar on Infrastructure Financing

Enhancing the role of institutional investors

in infrastructure financing

29 August 2013, Palembang, Indonesia

Under the aegis of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) and within the framework of the OECD Project on Institutional Investors and Long-Term Investment, the OECD organised a high-level seminar on “Enhancing the Role of Institutional Investors in Infrastructure Financing” in Palembang, Indonesia on 29 August 2013. The seminar was co-hosted by the Indonesian Ministry of Finance and held back-to-back with the APEC Workshop on Infrastructure on 28 August 2013.

This meeting focused on:

Introducing and discussing OECD work on institutional investors and long-term financing, including the latest research, policy analysis, best practices and country case studies
Discussing and formulating policy measures and initiatives to address constraints to infrastructure investment identified by APEC work under the Indonesian presidency and G20 work under the Russian presidency, with a particular focus on institutional investors
Addressing the implementation of the OECD High-level Principles on Long-Term Investment Financing by Institutional Investors in APEC countries.

Participants included high-level representatives of pension funds, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds, as well as high-level officials and experts from ministries of finance, central banks and international organisations.