Infrastructure research
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Infrastructure debt in 2025: Investor research and discipline are key to unlocking value in the sector
European infrastructure debt issuance should pick up as governments look to stimulate their economies and support the energy transition. But with banks keen to fund some of the best opportunities, investors need to maintain their discipline.
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Outlook 2025 - Plan for growth, prepare for volatility
2025 is shaping up to be another good year for investor returns, with healthy global GDP growth likely to support earnings, and falling interest rates putting mild upward pressure on valuation multiples. Explore our key macroeconomic views and the asset class implications across infrastructure, real estate, equities, and credit markets for the year ahead.
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Infrastructure 2025 Outlook
In 2025, the macro backdrop for private infrastructure is undoubtedly positive. Economic growth is resilient, inflation remains above average, and interest rates are declining. Valuations have also fallen in recent years, offering relative value compared to public markets. All stars appear aligned for the asset class, but here is a simple truth – there is no easy money left in infrastructure.
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Listed infrastructure: a missing piece in your portfolio
Investing in essential service providers, which are integral to our daily lives, results in unique investment characteristics that can diversify your portfolio across market cycles. The defensive growth profile of the asset class complements equities, fixed income, and private infrastructure. Integrating GLI into a traditional 60/40 portfolio by substituting 10% of equities holds the potential to provide similar returns while lowering overall portfolio risk.
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Listed vs. private infrastructure: Why not both?
Investing in listed infrastructure may provide benefits that make a strong case for a larger allocation to listed markets relative to private investments than is currently observed by institutional investors. At Nuveen, we strongly believe in the infrastructure asset class.
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Generating alpha returns in energy infrastructure
Actis invests globally in critical, sustainable infrastructure, not only because we view it as our mission to transform infrastructure for a better tomorrow but, above all, because we know that our investment approach, and experience investing in critical infrastructure in more than 35 countries over the last 20 years, delivers competitive, alpha returns.
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Keynote Interview: The third wave of decarbonisation
Tackling the carbon footprint of heating and hard-to-abate sectors is paramount if net-zero ambitions are to be fully realised, says Schroders Greencoat’s James Samworth in an article originally published by Infrastructure Investor magazine.
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Private Markets Investment Outlook Q2 2024: A new investment environment
Private markets are entering Q2 2024 with a reshaped investment landscape. The normalisation of fundraising and valuation adjustments for specific strategies have set the stage for promising investment opportunities.
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Investing in Asian new economy real estate
The global real estate market is well known for its compelling characteristics, offering long-term, stable yields to institutional investors. However, with continued economic and geopolitical uncertainty, as well as a complex global interest rate environment, it is increasingly important that investors choose the appropriate markets and sectors to maximise their returns.
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Financing the energy transition
Energy security and climate change are driving an unparalleled economic shift in the energy sector worldwide, and reshaping the investment landscape for green energy credit as a result.
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Mind the (economic) gap: Infrastructure Debt 2024 Report
Nuveen’s Don Dimitrievich was recently featured in Infrastructure Investor’s 2024 Infrastructure Debt Report and shared his insights on how the Energy Infrastructure Credit team is providing flexible capital solutions and finding opportunities in the gaps in today’s high cost of capital environment.
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The solar coaster: The twists and turns of an evolving investment opportunity set
Significant growth in electrification is required in the United States to meet decarbonization goals. According to the Department of Energy, the capacity of the existing U.S. grid will need to increase 57% by 2035.
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Global infrastructure: Listed securities offer opportunities
Our complex framework of roads, waterways, utilities and airports must be maintained and expanded to meet evolving global needs. In the past, government has been largely responsible for creating and maintaining infrastructure. However, private funding has become an increasingly important resource as governments find themselves unable to cope with the challenges of modern infrastructure. Thus infrastructure has transformed from something that consumes tax dollars to a potential investment opportunity.
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Infrastructure debt: an essential asset class for an urgent challenge
Climate change is the defining issue of our time, and we are at a critical moment. Rising temperatures are already having a tangible impact on the global economy, on ecosystems and on society as a whole. The International Energy Agency estimates that investment in clean energy alone must reach USD 4 trillion annually by 20301 if we are to achieve net zero by 2050 and prevent catastrophic changes to health, livelihoods, water supply, food security, human security and economies.
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Sustainable supply chain opportunities take center stage
Given the backdrop of the Inflation Reduction Act’s passage in 2022, 15 months later this historic legislation is supercharging a resurgence of US manufacturing, particularly by supporting supply chain industries that facilitate the decarbonization of power generation and the broader economy.
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Where next for the European rooftop solar market?
Despite macro headwinds, we see significant growth potential - but how transferable is the American model?
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Listed infrastructure: Electrification drives opportunities for listed infrastructure companies
Electrification is at the core of the global energy transition. Electricity is likely to see the fastest demand growth of any major energy source in the coming decades.
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Future green investments: Emerging energy transition infrastructure beyond renewables
Renewable energy has been one of the most popular target sectors for infrastructure investors in recent years. With the rising maturity of renewables, returns of traditional projects such as wind and solar have compressed significantly, typically offering single digit Internal Rate of Returns (IRR).
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Will infrastructure deliver for investors?
From inflation hedging and yield to impact goals and climate risk mitigation, investors’ expectations for infrastructure are high.
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Rates, repricing and relative value: The outlook for multi-asset real assets
James Tarry and Luke Layfield from our multi-asset real assets portfolio management team discuss the outlook for real estate and infrastructure and how shifts in UK climate policy may affect the push for net zero.