The 2012 Editorial Advisory Board of Institutional Investing in Infrastructure (I3)met in Chicago Nov. 8–9, 2012, following the Institutional Investing in Infrastructure conference Nov. 5–8 to discuss the challenges that face participants in this market. Board members were assigned topics and gathered in groups to discuss and report their conclusions to the board. All discussions are facilitated by Geoffrey Dohrmann, president and CEO of Institutional Real Estate, Inc., and publisher of I3.The following is an excerpt of discussions regarding survey results from the 2012 board meeting. Dohrmann spoke with a number of Editorial Advisory Board members and discussed the topic of asset management.

What expertise is required to manage infrastructure investments, and how does this impact how an investor accesses these investments, which ties back to th