Investors should commit capital to infrastructure after they have established clearly the role the asset class will play in their overall investment portfolios. That role can include all risk strategies, from traditional core to highly opportunistic plays. Given this, are there examples of exemplary investing — role models — that investors can emulate when looking to invest in this asset class?

Times indeed are changing, and a confluence of factors is pointing to the growing role that infrastructure investing will play in the decades ahead. 

Since the 1990s, the private sector has taken an increasing role in developing infrastructure that was previously the sole responsibility of governments.