Infrastructure research – Page 4
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White papersPrivate and listed infrastructure: The case for a complete portfolio
Investors appear to be struggling to deploy capital to meet existing allocation goals due to the challenges managers face in putting money to work in the private infrastructure market.
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White papersIs the time ripe? Contributing to carbon reduction with energy storage
Many factors have contributed to making entering this sector particularly interesting. The increased growth of the electric vehicle sector led to a broader global manufacturing capacity, which resulted in decreasing batteries costs. This has made the use of energy storage cost-competitive for the first time.
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White papersHow the Inflation Reduction Act boosts listed infrastructure
While its name doesn’t reflect it, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) signed into law in August 2022 is the most substantial U.S. legislation ever passed pertaining to climate policy. Approximately $370 billion of the $730 billion package is earmarked for energy and climate change programs.
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White papersAchieving absolute return with green energy credit
In Preqin’s ‘The Future of Alternatives in 2027’ report, Scott Lawrence, Partner at Glennmont Partners from Nuveen, recently discussed how clean energy managers with local presence, experience, and technical asset knowledge will be best positioned to capitalize on Europe’s increased demand for clean energy project financing.
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White papersLISTED INFRASTRUCTURE: Three win/win opportunities for investors and society in the U.S.
The electric grid is increasingly vulnerable to damage from storms and other natural events such as wildfires. Hardening the grid is therefore a major focus for utility companies in the U.S. today.
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White papersHow do you decarbonise transport - and why should investors care?
The transport sector, particularly in emerging markets, is extremely difficult to decarbonise. As governments recognise the need to act with more urgency, investment opportunities are appearing.
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White papersNext Wave of Physical Climate Risk
For any remaining sceptics, 2022 post-Covid summer has further confirmed that climate change is for real with new record length droughts, forest fires and the Rhine river at risk of running too low for commercial shipping.
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White papersTop 5 takeaways for infrastructure
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is the most important US clean energy legislation in recent history. The bill gives investors unprecedented policy visibility that was previously lacking. Energy tax credits have been expanded to investments such as standalone energy storage, clean transportation, hydrogen etc., opening up new investment opportunities.
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White papersBridging the infrastructure investment gap
The world has a tremendous need for infrastructure, a hunger that governments alone cannot meet. Private investment will be essential for communities to ensure they can meet the challenges of this century, explains Wolfgang Egger, CEO and Founder of PATRIZIA.
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White papersDeep roots and new branches
The universal drive for sustainability and the high inflationary backdrop has helped grow the investment case for timberland investing.
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White papersEuropean infrastructure debt – navigating new challenges
Particularly during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdowns, infrastructure debt proved to be resilient as an asset class. Despite lockdowns shutting down businesses and many aspects of society, specific sectors such as renewables, telecommunications and utilities continued to perform through the provision of essential services.
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White papersGreen credit can finance Europe’s energy transition
With energy security top of mind across Europe, Scott Lawrence and Claudio Vescovo of Glennmont Partners – a Nuveen company – discuss how they are supporting the energy transition in the region.
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White papersHow to smarten up cities
What we need are not new smart cities but ‘smartened up’ cities to deal with the challenges of decarbonization, demography, digitalization and urbanization, argues Mahdi Mokrane, Head of Global Investment Strategy, Research & Investment Solutions at PATRIZIA.
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White papersInfrastructure – rising rates and the “natural hedge”
Inflation has accelerated globally as a result of consumer demand, fuelled by fiscal policy, pushing into supply constraints due to COVID-19 and geopolitical upheaval. US inflation is running at 40-year highs and other advanced economies are at or near similar extremes.
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White papersTaking the temperature of the private markets: mid-year outlook
In this private markets outlook, we outline what the headwinds facing the property sector are, why we are focusing on quality in private credit and how the clean energy infrastructure conversation in Europe is being dominated by war in Ukraine.
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White papersHarnessing technological trends within infrastructure
Disruptive technological changes are already shifting the ways in which consumers, businesses and governments behave, and this is evolving at an unprecedented rate. Innovations in a diverse range of industries have not only unleashed new technology applications, but also uncovered new intersections across different fields and sectors.
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White papersWhat comes after globalisation?
The end of the Cold War acted like a catalyst for the liberal international economic order and free world trade. Cash and commodities moved across the globe at will. Location patterns were reshuffled. Asian countries, especially China, beckoned with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of cheap labour. With their labour market largely unregulated, they became the world’s extended workbench.
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White papersThe road ahead for transportation infrastructure
Transport infrastructure experienced an unprecedented decline during the Covid-19 pandemic. As the world emerges from a series of lockdowns, traffic on toll roads returns more quickly than rail or air travel. Overall volume-sensitive transport continues to re-gain ground from the cyclical rebound. Investors seem to have turned the corner and see the impact on the sector as transitory rather than permanent. But what are the long-term structural trends behind the revival in investment deal flow and some of the biggest buyouts in transport infrastructure?
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White papersA complementary allocation in an institutional investor’s portfolio
Since its emergence as an asset class in the 1990s, infrastructure has increasingly been featured as a distinct allocation within institutional investment portfolios.
