Infrastructure funds are popular over at the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS), according to its private market investment summary as of 31 March, 2012.

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Alternative investments such as infrastructure and private equity aren’t for the shallow-pocketed. Data provided by the Maine Public Employees Retirement System reveals just how big a bite fees and expenses can take in the early years of limited partnerships. Take Carlyle Infrastructure Partners, a fund to which MainePERS committed $50 million in November 2007. Of that sum [...]