Mina Pacheco Nazemi is the head of the Diversified Alternative Equity (DAE) team at Barings and chairs the firm’s investment committee. She is responsible for equity investments in infrastructure and private equity. Her team actively invests in direct investments, continuation vehicles and co-leads transactions in these markets. Kali Persall, editor of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (i3), recently interviewed Mina Pacheco Nazemi about the infrastructure investment landscape. The following is an excerpt of that conversation.

Why does Barings DAE find the lower end of the market so attractive, and what are some of the key areas of focus? ?

In the past 10 years, infrastructure has completely balloon