Infrastructure Looking out for the little guy: How smaller investors can access infrastructure investing Private investors have populated their investment portfolios with stocks and bonds since the time that private investment began. These are asset classes investors understand, and they are easily accessed. But in today’s investment climate, concentrating on just two asset classes might not diversify a portfolio enough to withstand future economic shocks.
Infrastructure India in the dark: A big opportunity exists for power infrastructure investments in India Growing up, my family and I would “vacation” in India. I don’t think my senses will ever forget the sites, the sounds or the smells. We would stay at my grandmother’s house — a house that was built in the 1930s and had an open space architecture, which meant I could walk out of my room and see the smoggy, polluted skies of Bangalore.
Infrastructure A conversation with Scott Inglis, Tommaso Albanese and Doug Zinkiewich Institutional Investing in Infrastructure senior editor Drew Campbell spoke with three infrastructure debt managers about the current market. Below is an excerpt of this conversation with Tommaso Albanese, managing director and head of infrastructure with UBS Asset Management; Scott Inglis, managing director, MetLife Investments Private Capital Investors group; and Doug Zinkiewich, managing director and head of investment management with Integrated Asset Management Private Debt Group.
Infrastructure The five qualities of a well-tempered city: Lessons from J.S. Bach The first quality of urban temperament is coherence, which can be seen at work in the temperament used by Johann Sebastian Bach to compose The Well-Tempered Clavier. Just as an equalizing tuning system permitted 24 different musical scales to integrate and to influence one another for the first time, so cities need a framework to unify their many disparate programs, departments and aspirations.
Infrastructure We have seen this before: Infrastructure fundraising in 2016 looks similar to that of 2015 For much of the past 10 years, infrastructure fundraising has ebbed and flowed — up one year, down the next. Conventional wisdom predicted that once the industry grew, once there were enough managers and investors, fundraising would smooth out. No one knew what “enough” was, but they would know it when they saw it. Well, we might just be seeing it.
Infrastructure Research review: A guide to recent infrastructure research reports and papers A guide to recent infrastructure research reports and papers