Infrastructure research – Page 7
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White papersInvesting in the New Global Infrastructure Economy
In a recent interview in the Preqin Global Infrastructure 2022 report, Biff Ourso and Andy Deihl of Nuveen Infrastructure discuss how changing global demographics and structural trends are creating opportunities for private infrastructure to invest in the transition to a low carbon economy.
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White papersInfrastructure debt: The future is green
Sustainability and the energy transition have certainly remained at the forefront of government and public agendas, despite the pandemic. This is particularly true in Europe. It is also true that we’re seeing an increasing emphasis on ESG from institutional investors.
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White papersEuropean cities: The Unsung Heroes of Grenoble, Wiesbaden and Coventry
The property world loves to rank cities, it’s a powerful method to condense the complexities of cities into a single metric. The usual ways of doing that come with a flaw, all too often absolute variables are used with the predictable result that the biggest cities lead the pack.
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White papersInfrastructure debt – Opportunities in the post-COVID recovery
As the global economy recovers from the COVID pandemic, companies and governments are re-thinking how economies operate and focusing on rebuilding in a more sustainable way. Recovery efforts are being supported by ambitious government spending plans that focus strongly on infrastructure.
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White papersRating game: Getting the measure of infrastructure equity risk
Unlike liquid markets and real estate, a lack of publicly available data has made assessing risk more challenging for infrastructure equity assets.
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White papersThe Decisive Eye - Are Real Estate Investors Already Invested in Infrastructure?
Investors have increasingly embraced real assets to help meet some of these very significant investment challenges given their ability to deliver income-enhanced portfolio diversification.
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White papersWhy investors should focus on the Asian opportunity for sustainable data centres
The world’s appetite for data – and with it the demand for centres which house the infrastructure to process it – has increased exponentially in recent years, and shows every sign of accelerating even further. Drivers such as Industry 4.0, business migration to the cloud, the rise of 5G and the opportunities offered by the Internet of Things mean data will play a growing role in all our lives.
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White papersTurning talk into action: Our real assets pathway to net zero
Unconstrained delivery of buildings and Infrastructure has been a major contributor to the climate crisis and now presents catastrophic risks for our clients and society.
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White papersWiredScore: Tenants expect quality connectivity
In today’s digital business world, nothing is ever fast enough. From running e-commerce platforms and delivering online services, communicating with clients and colleagues, to using cloud apps to manage operations, the internet underpins most core business functions.
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White papersIncorporating ESG analysis in infrastructure investing
With sustainability factors more prominent than ever in the path forward for equities, the importance of integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations when investing in real assets such as infrastructure should come as no surprise.
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White papersIs infrastructure key to a sustainable recovery?
Infrastructure investment is about financing the real economy, meaning few investments are better placed to deliver a sustainable future.
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White papersIndustrial: Ugly Duckling, or Swan?
While we can argue that very few industrial buildings would be considered to have the beauty and stature of a swan, we discuss why we believe that the industrial sector has found a permanent and ever-more welcomed home in real estate investment portfolios.
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White papersReal Assets Study 2020 - Navigating disruption: challenges and opportunities
Real assets have been in the eye of the storm during the coronavirus pandemic – but according to our study, the worlds of infrastructure, real estate and private debt, still retain their appeal, even if fundamental changes are affecting them.
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White papersBuild, build, build: the road to recovery and returns?
Infrastructure is in the spotlight as governments look to repair their economies after Covid-19. We look at how infrastructure equity works and where we see the best opportunities.
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White papersTalking Points – Infrastructure debt in a COVID-19 world, June 2020
When will infrastructure companies be able to get back to “normal”?
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White papersHow to build back better, greener and faster: A 10-point plan for UK infrastructure
Boris Johnson has called for an ‘infrastructure revolution’ to help lift the UK economy out of its coronavirus-induced malaise. Private capital could and should play a large role alongside the public purse in delivering on that ambition, as Darryl Murphy sets out in a blueprint for the industry.
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White papersCommercial Aviation Market Improving, Recovery Time is Uncertain
While the length and depth of this crisis remain uncertain, industry insiders are confident in aviation’s resiliency and ability to recover.
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White papersInfrastructure in a post-COVID world – June 2020
COVID-19 and the end of infrastructure as we know it?
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White papersCOVID-19 and data infrastructure: Will demand translate into profit?
During the initial outbreak of COVID-19, we published a report on the underlying long-term trends supporting data infrastructure. Since then, much about the world as we knew it has changed. Laurence Monnier assesses how many of the trends we identified remain intact and whether the surge in demand for data services and infrastructure will translate into investment opportunities.
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White papersCOVID-19: Is there still a premium for illiquidity?
One of the immediate consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a marked reduction in investors’ risk appetite. But will their appetite for the illiquidity premium in private markets also disappear? Laurence Monnier explores.
