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Checking it twice: Listed infrastructure may not be as glamorous as owning an airport or telecom towers, but it provides access to assets and diversity that private ownership cannot
- April 1, 2022: Vol. 15, Number 4

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Checking it twice: Listed infrastructure may not be as glamorous as owning an airport or telecom towers, but it provides access to assets and diversity that private ownership cannot

by Joel Kranc

The past year has been a rollercoaster of economic events, pandemic starts and stops, and an inflationary environment not seen in a generation, and now a war waging in Europe. Institutional investors wanting to create a balanced portfolio to meet those challenges have also been faced with twists and turns. Even as monetary policy shifts away from a reaction toward the pandemic, institutional investors are worried, in the long term, about potential tax hikes, future crises, stagflation and future cuts to social safety nets. That is according to Natixis Investment Managers’ 2022 Global Institutional Investor Outlook.

The report also showed that in the years leading up to the pandemic, private assets had been growing among institutional investors. In 2018, more than three-quarters of institutions invested in private equity (77 percent), private debt (77 percent) and infrastructure (76 percent). In 2021, those numbers increased to 84 percent, 81 percent and 81 percent,

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