White papersData Center Investments: A 360-Degree View
Investment in data centers has increased dramatically, driven largely by explosive demand from generative artificial intelligence (AI) and the accelerating global reliance on digital infrastructure. As AI technologies advance, the need for larger, more energy-intensive facilities equipped with sophisticated infrastructure, such as high-performance graphics processing units (GPUs), continues to escalate, reshaping energy consumption patterns and influencing broader utilities and infrastructure markets. At the same time, the substantial power requirements and significant capital outlays involved in data center expansion present unique investment risks and opportunities across both public and private credit.
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Actis Long Life Infrastructure Fund 2 momentum continues, with fund now close to 50% deployed
White papersConfidence up for May but what comes next?
US consumer confidence index rose sharply, and above expectations, in May to 98.0, mainly due to a temporary trade truce between the US and China on tariffs. Expectations about the near future also improved.
White papersIndian assets have long-term allure as global rivalries intensify
Equity investors will have to cope with greater trade protectionism and regional rivalry, delayed climate transition, and technological transformation in the next decade. In our 2025 Capital Market Assumptions – which examine long-term return expectations for 40 global asset classes – we see shifting dynamics across equity markets, characterised by strong earnings growth in select regions, tempered by valuation challenges.
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White papersMacro Monthly: The ‘Sell America’ trade and its limitations
Market narratives change fast. Entering 2025, most investors were all-in on US exceptionalism. President Trump’s tax cuts and de-regulatory agenda were expected to boost the US growth and earnings outlook, while tariffs would be disproportionately negative for the rest of the world. Investors came into the year overweight US stocks and the US dollar.
White papersPatient investing in India: opportunities and challenges in a rapidly changing economy
Investment returns in the subcontinent have been primarily driven by India since she liberalised her economy in 1991. Investment into one of the earlier Indian indices would have yielded compounded annual returns of approximately 9% in US dollars, from December 1992 to end of March 2025. This compares very favourably with other global and emerging market indices over the same period.
White papersHow Beta Investors Keep Alpha Under Control
Active ETFs are redefining the parameters of modern portfolio construction, offering solutions to the challenges faced by institutional investors. While it is easy to get lost in the rapidly expanding array of active ETFs, when investing in them European institutional investors have remained firmly anchored near core allocations around established benchmarks such as MSCI World and Europe.
White papersReturning to the foundations of infrastructure investing
In recent decades, infrastructure investing has emerged as a preferred strategy for investors seeking long-term, stable returns. The growing recognition of the importance of infrastructure in the modern economy, combined with its intrinsically strong characteristics, has propelled infrastructure investments to the forefront of the private equity investment landscape. However, this popularity has, in some ways, diluted the original intent of infrastructure investing.
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