Infrastructure research – Page 6
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Rating 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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The 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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Why 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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Excuse me, while I kiss the sky
This paper is an introduction to the new world of European renewables investment – a sector able to deliver attractive levels of regular income and capital appreciation to asset owners. The market is at perhaps the most electrifying point for investors: mature and proven, competitive and able to replace conventional energy – and with societies demanding more change towards sustainable economies.
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Turning 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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WiredScore: 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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Global Data Centers: Getting Connected With a Niche Sector
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the largest economic shock in generations. Significant disruption across all segments of the economy has resulted in severe recessions globally.
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Incorporating 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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Is 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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Industrial: 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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Real 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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Build, 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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Talking 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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How 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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Commercial 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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Infrastructure in a post-COVID world – June 2020
COVID-19 and the end of infrastructure as we know it?
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COVID-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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Perspective: Renewable Energies
Greta Thunberg, #FridaysForFuture and climate protection currently receive much attention. Greta is cheered on, we point an accusing finger at others, and yet people still buy strawberries in winter. In the current debate on climate protection, two different yardsticks are used. We criticise other people’s behaviour, but have a blinkered view of our own behaviour, seeing only what we want to see.
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COVID-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.
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Which U.S. cities will best weather the pandemic?
As volatility climbs across all global financial markets amid the coronavirus pandemic, investors are wondering where to turn to find opportunities. Real estate is no exception.