All Infrastructure articles – Page 6
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Bridging the Digital Divide
The gap between the digital haves and have-nots is becoming more and more pronounced. Danny Mills and Kailong Liu look into why, and outline the role private capital can play in improving the situation.
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Infrastructure Investor: Investing In Asia’s Multi-Trillion-Dollar Energy Transition
Actis’ Senior Partner, Torbjorn Caesar recently spoke with Infrastructure Investor about the significant opportunity for energy infrastructure investors offering the necessary scale, experience and capital in Southeast Asia.
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The European industrial and logistics sector
Quality logistics space is an essential part of a country’s infrastructure. The rise of ecommerce is only one driver – a focus on making supply chains more robust is also boosting demand for industrial space closer to European markets, while a widespread need to update and improve aging buildings to meet increasingly strict ESG regulations provides yet another opportunity.
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Strategy and value creation in a changing infrastructure environment: IREI’s interview with Andrew Morris
We started as a global, diversified core-focused business. As the industry has matured, the best investors have become increasingly specialized, and we have followed suit. We’ve been focusing on building specific capabilities in infrastructure sectors we think are the most attractive, and in the past five years, that has been in the digital and energy transition in the two largest markets — North America and Europe.
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How investors can get on board with sustainable travel and transport
International tourism is expected to return to almost pre-pandemic levels this year, but this poses something of a conundrum. How do we combine the economic and wider benefits of travel with the increasing urgency of the need to tackle climate change?
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Conflict risk: an engagement update
The world’s facing much geopolitical uncertainty. We’ve been engaging with companies on their exposure to high-risk areas like Myanmar, Sudan, Russia, and Ukraine.
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How High Is Too High | Are Infrastructure Valuations Grounded in Reality?
Headline valuations associated with infrastructure transactions have, for years, been subject to mockery, skepticism or a more subtle roll of the eyes, with airports, data centers and towers considered usual suspects. Although the nascent asset class has more or less gone mainstream, higher rates and macroeconomic uncertainty haven’t allayed such oft-cited concerns. So, what do we make of infrastructure valuations in today’s environment?
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One Man’s Trash | Evaluating Environmental Infrastructure Assets
The concept of something having contradictory qualities depending on the eye of the beholder can be traced back to the first century B.C. Whether the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius coined the expression, or merely repeated it, his is the oldest known reference: “Quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum” (what is food for one man may be bitter poison to others). You may be more familiar with the modernized adaptation: “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.”
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Listed Infrastructure: A timely complement to unlisted infrastructure
Since its emergence as an asset class in the 1990s, infrastructure has increasingly featured as a distinct allocation within institutional investment portfolios. Traditional infrastructure assets typically share specific attributes that support the delivery of steady investment returns throughout an economic cycle.
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Podcast
Podcast: Is hydrogen really the solution to net zero?
How practical is it for the world to adopt such a complex and dangerous fuel as hydrogen as a major clean energy alternative? Kristian Hoeg Madsen, Co-Head of Hydrogen Investment at Schroders Greencoat, joins the pod to discuss.
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Asset Manager News
Debt’s Defence Against Volatility
The appetite for infrastructure debt continues to grow, with a well-developed pipeline of investments, says Infranity’s CEO Philippe Benaroya
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Listed Infrastructure: A timely complement to unlisted infrastructure
Since its emergence as an asset class in the 1990s, infrastructure has increasingly featured as a distinct allocation within institutional investment portfolios.
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Why are we waiting?: Time for UK infrastructure to pick up pace - Aviva Investors
After a slow start to the year, Darryl Murphy ponders what it will take to get the UK infrastructure market moving again.
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Hydrogen and net zero – which ambitions are realistic, and which are less so?
Hydrogen is not an energy source in itself, but more a means of transmitting or storing energy. Its relative expense means we expect it only to be used where it’s the only viable solution.
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Research Report
Global Environmental Social and Governance Report 2022
Our Annual ESG Report sets out our approach to ESG and provides an update on the progress we and our portfolio companies have made in 2022.
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Asset Manager News
KGAL acquires majority stake in Polish solar and wind project pipeline
KGAL Investment Management is establishing a joint venture with Polish project developer Lasuno for its KGAL ESPF 5 impact fund, for the purpose of developing four solar parks with a total capacity of more than 200 megawatts (MW).
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Agrivoltaics — The Future Of Agriculture?
A rising phenomenon in the renewable energy sector is the increasing adoption of agrivoltaic systems, also known as APV. These constitute the dual and mutually beneficial use of land for agricultural purposes and photovoltaic (PV) power generation.
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Debt’s defence against volatility
The appetite for infrastructure debt continues to grow, with a well-developed pipeline of investments, says Infranity’s CEO Philippe Benaroya
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Keynote Interview: The renewables path is clear
In an article originally published by Infrastructure Investor magazine, Matt Ridley, partner at Schroders Greencoat, says the right time for renewables is now, with the required investment in renewable energy and associated infrastructure representing a multi-trillion dollar opportunity globally.
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In-house expertise and the right investment strategy make the difference in financing fiber
Fiber optic cable networks are fast becoming an important asset class and the successful partnership between Primevest Capital Partners (Primevest CP) and Germany’s Hamburg Commercial Bank (HCOB) highlights how a distinctive approach to investing is bringing super-fast internet into even more homes.