The editorial team at IREI just wrapped up the editorial calendars for the second half of 2015. Each year, the process of setting the topics for feature articles begins by reviewing the discussions at our annual Editorial Advisory Board meetings, 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. These investors are public and corporate pensions, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and superannuation funds, as well as the consultants who help them plan and execute infrastructure investment policy.

One of the challenges of setting the editorial content for the same group of people each year is coming up with fresh ideas. On one hand, the market is always changing, and so the thinking of our editorial board members is changes as well, and so new story ideas are always popping up. But on the other hand, the process of institutional investing also has a lot of c