With its $1.3 trillion nominal GDP, Mexico is the second-largest economy in Latin America and the 15th largest in the world. But you would not know that from the state of its infrastructure. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index 2015–2016, Mexico’s infrastructure ranks 59th out of 140 countries. Countries such as Malaysia, Lithuania, Namibia and even Kazakhstan have better infrastructure systems. 

The editorial team at Institutional Real Estate, Inc. just wrapped up the editorial calendars for the first half of 2016. Each year, the process of setting the topics for feature articles begins by reviewing the discussions at our annual Editorial Advisory Board meetings — such as the meeting for Institutional Investing in Infrastructure this year in Toronto in June — where our publication sponsors and board members get to learn what issues and objectives drive the thinking and decision making of the investors at our meetings. 

Communications infrastructure is just a small slice of the overall infrastructure market, and within this sector, telecommunications towers are an even smaller portion of the market, but they also are one of the more interesting stories in infrastructure investing.