Videos & Podcasts

Author Spotlight: The "well-tempered" cities of the future

What current city is most emblematic of the future of urban life? What do cities from past civilizations have to teach us about the cities of today and tomorrow? What is the next great shift urban planning and what is driving that change? Urban planner and developer Jonathan Rose, author of The Well-Tempered City, joins us to answer those and other questions. (09/2016)

In Focus: Glen Dogan on Australian infrastructure

Glen Dogan, head of sales and relationship management at Perpetual Investment Management, discusses why institutional investors are investing in Australian infrastructure based on a recent Perpetual report. (08/2016)

In Focus: Dylan Foo on raising infrastructure capital

Dylan Foo, principal, head of Americas, infrastructure equity at AMP Capital Investors, discusses the current North American capital market and if managers are having difficulty placing capital. (07/2016)

In Focus: Jorge Rodriguez on institutional investors in infrastructure

Jorge Rodriguez, head of infrastructure debt at Deutsche Asset Management, discusses various entry points and pros and cons for institutional investors in the infrastructure asset class. (07/2016)

In Focus: Ross Israel on technology in infrastructure

Ross Israel, head of global infrastructure at QIC Limited, discusses technology and the effects it will have on the future of the infrastructure market. For more information on this topic click here. (07/2016)

In Focus: Brent Burnett on private investments

Brent Burnett, managing director at Real Asset Portfolio Management, discusses private investments in public energy infrastructure companies as it speaks to the disconnect today in energy infrastructure asset valuations. (07/2016)

Infrastructure Report: Building information modeling

Building information modeling, or BIM, is sharply reducing the design time, construction costs and budget overruns on infrastructure projects — as well as construction projects in general. It also brings a higher degree of precision to design and construction. Future iterations of BIM will bring even more benefits to civil engineering and construction. For more on this topic we turn to Terry Bennett, the senior industry strategist for civil infrastructure at Autodesk. (07/2016)

In Focus: Danny Latham on the conditions in European infrastructure markets

Danny Latham, co-head of infrastructure investments – Europe at First State Investments, discusses European infrastructure markets. (07/2016)

In Focus: Matthew McPhee on secondary infrastructure

Matthew McPhee, director of infrastructure at Stafford Capital Partners, disccusess secondary infrastructure and why investors use it rather than primary funds or direct investments, as well as how big the market is and how it's growing. (06/2016)

In Focus: Francois Quinty on VIA Rail Canada

François Quinty, director of investment management at VIA Rail Canada, discusses VIA Rail Canada as well as utilizing public-private partnerships and tapping into institutional capital to help finance infrastructure projects. (06/2016)

In Focus: James Cowan on fundraising trends

James Cowan, head, investor solutions group, Americas at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets, discusses fundraising trends, as far as capital flows, products and regions, as well as how the current trends compare to 12 to 24 months ago. (06/2016)

Shop Talk: Is water the new oil?

Seth Siegel, author of the bestselling book "Let There Be Water," sees water as both a business opportunity and a looming geopolitical crisis that will result in failed foreign governments and renewed rounds of refugee crises. He joins us to discuss how Israel turned itself into a water superpower and why the United States and other nations are failing to master the production and conservation of a chemical compound that is essential to life on earth. (06/2016)

Shop Talk: The commercialization of water technologies

We are joined by Melinda Kruyer, executive director of Confluence, a Cincinnati-based non-profit organization that runs a water technology innovation effort in the Ohio River Valley. The consortium includes federal water laboratories, research universities, water-related business, water utilities and regional development agencies, among other organizations. Confluence brings together 6,000 researchers and nearly $4 billion in annual research spending. (05/2016)

Author Spotlight: Peter Frankopan on China's new silks roads

Heads up infrastructure investors and those involved in thematic investment strategies. In his new book, The Silk Roads, historian Peter Frankopan asserts that China is reestablishing a modern-day network of its historic silk roads that connected much of the world and fostered the spread and integration of culture and commerce. This time, though, China is expanding its influence in the form of a trillion dollars in global infrastructure projects in an effort to supply its own vast need for resources…

Infrastructure Report: The Infrastructure Strategies 2016 conference

Investors and experts from around the world will gather in Boston for the 11th annual IREI infrastructure conference in June. High on the agenda are fundraising, investment strategies, technology and the hardening infrastructure systems to withstand increasingly violent storms. Drew Campbell, editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (a sister publication of Real Assets Adviser), provides an update. (03/2016)