Delivering long term sustainable returns with an APAC focus
Keppel Core Infrastructure Fund (KCIF) is an open-ended, evergreen fund that invests in the highly defensive core infrastructure space.
KCIF seeks to deliver a stable yield with long-term sustainable returns by investing in high quality Investments with predominantly contracted, regulated, established and/or stable revenues. Leveraging Keppel’s expertise and deep operational insights, the Fund will focus on the economic and social infrastructure, energy transition infrastructure and digital infrastructure sectors across developed markets in Asia Pacific.
Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
The Fund is aligned with Keppel's sustainability management framework. Since 2018, Keppel has been a participant of the United Nations Global Compact, and we affirm our support of the Global Compact’s 10 principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.
KCIF is an SFDR Article 8 compliant fund and intends to adopt the Global Reporting Initiative Universal Standards and Sustainability Accounting Standards Board for its reporting. The Fund is seeking to be a GRESB participant and will be aligning its disclosures based on recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
Responsible Investment Policy
ESG is at the heart of KCIF’s investment process. We integrate best practices that the Fund is benchmarked against across the life cycle of the assets, from deal origination to deal execution and asset management. Prior to each investment, the Investment Manager will conduct a rigorous due diligence of all relevant ESG issues by engaging external and established advisers. Independent parties are also appointed as part of the overall governance for the Fund.
KCIF’s strategy on achieving financial returns are strongly focused on investing in economic and social infrastructure, energy transition infrastructure and digital infrastructure in a responsible manner, with an aim to:
