Each year at IREI’s VIP Infrastructure conference and i3 Editorial Advisory Board meeting, we survey attendees with “quick tally” questions to gauge sentiment on pressing topics. This time, after our events, we decided to extend the quick tally surveys to a wider audience to check on the perspectives of investors such as pension plans, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds and gauge perspectives throughout the year.

This is the second quick tally survey we have conducted, the first being in July. In our second edition of the survey, we sent four questions to investors and received 21 responses.

Survey participants comprised 13 pension plans, six insurance companies, one superannuation fund and one permanent fund. Geographically, the respondents were primarily from North America (13 from the United States and four from Canada). There was one participant from each of Australia, Germany, Korea and Japan. The majority of responses came from U.S.-bas