For many of us, the New Year is about setting lofty goals in January and working hard for a couple weeks before falling back into old habits. For investors with allocation and return targets to meet, and investment managers with fundraising goals, this is not how you want to start the New Year. But this year, as the idealism fades and the corresponding disappointment grows, let’s resolve to make February about re-focusing and getting back to basics.

Large core infrastructure assets stole the spotlight in the early years of the infrastructure market’s evolution. Now that spotlight is veering toward other sectors, especially smaller, mid-market asset opportunities. Smaller mid-market infrastructure deals, typically defined by an equity value between $50 million and $1 billion, have always been transacted. But they were mostly overlooked by the market as investors scrambled into huge global funds that sought large deals to invest the loads of capital raised.

For much of the past 10 years, infrastructure fundraising has ebbed and flowed — up one year, down the next. Based on early numbers, it appears that 2017 will continue that pattern. Looking at the numbers, however, we can see that overall fundraising is growing ever so slightly, with each ebb and flow being a bit higher than its previous counterpart.