All Infrastructure articles – Page 12
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Evolution & Revolution: The coming Web3 digital asset revolution
Web3 creates the potential for commercial protocols that can deliver goods and services in a peer-to-peer manner that can be directly accessed by any user via an internet connection.
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LISTED 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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Clean energy investments: a new addition to the investors’ inflation toolkit?
While investors have typically looked to commodities as an inflation hedge, a lack of income, coupled with volatile prices, has resulted in low risk-adjusted returns. Can direct energy investments help investors guard against rising prices?
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Finding adaptation solutions to climate risk
The soaring temperatures which hit Europe over the summer revealed the extent to which essential infrastructure is unprepared for a changing climate. The Q3 issue of Futureturns, our quarterly report on thematics and trends in equity markets, focuses on opportunities arising from the essential need for investment in adaptation efforts.
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How 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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Next 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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Fine Grain Property’s climate targets validated by SBTi
Fine Grain Property’s ambitions to at least halve its carbon emissions by 2030 and become net zero by 2050 at the latest have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).
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Top 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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Semi Equipment: Laying Foundations for the Future
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi’s recent visit to Taiwan was largely publicized—not just because of its geopolitical significance, but because it also underscored Taiwan’s importance to the global tech industry.
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KGAL Research: Green hydrogen is key for climate protection and energy independence
Leading independent investment and asset manager KGAL in conjunction with Aurora Energy, Fraunhofer ISE, Roland Berger and Watson Farley & Williams, produced a White Paper “Green H2 Investments – from Buzz to Boom”, which concludes that the development of a green hydrogen economy should be vigorously pursued.
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Bridging 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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Deep 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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European 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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The challenges that lie ahead - can investing in infrastructure help?
Particularly during the height of the 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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The Climate Has Changed for Infrastructure
Following a year of starkly revealed vulnerabilities in water, energy and supply-chain assets, some game-changing legislation suggests that governments are finally getting serious about infrastructure investment.
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Get real with income-producing real assets
We have seen demand for real assets grow dramatically in recent years, and we expect it will advance further as investors better understand the positive attributes of the asset class. Real assets offer the opportunity for diversification, inflation hedging and competitive total returns. Real assets may also serve as a nontraditional source of income, a feature that investors frequently overlook.
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Luba Nikulina appointed Chief Strategy Officer at IFM Investors
IFM Investors, a global investment manager owned by Australian pension funds, is pleased to announce the appointment of Luba Nikulina as its inaugural Chief Strategy Officer.
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Green 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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How 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.