Perspectives
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Listed Infrastructure Powers AI - And Vice Versa
The potential of AI and data growth to drive significant infrastructure investment represents an emerging long-term thematic driver for the listed infrastructure asset class.
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AOR Update: The Great Rotation?
With equities experiencing the most volatility since the pandemic, we examined the five factors driving the move out of mega cap growth stocks and why a slowing but still expansive economy, with the aid of imminent rate cuts, should support value, small cap and cyclical stocks in coming quarters as well as active management.
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Global Infrastructure Income Strategy July Commentary
Infrastructure rose strongly in July, outperforming global equities. Signs of a long-awaited market broadening began to appear, driven by the strong prospect of a U.S. interest rate cut in September, cuts in other economies underway, and positive corporate earnings.
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Global Infrastructure Value Strategy July Commentary
With increased confidence by market participants that we are at the end of the rate hiking cycle and now looking toward the start of the rate-cutting cycle, we believe this could be the start of the turn for many of our long-duration assets such as towers and renewables.
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Developed Markets Income Strategy July Commentary
Infrastructure rose strongly in July, outperforming global equities, and signs of a long-awaited market broadening began to appear.
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Emerging Markets Strategy July Commentary
We remain defensively positioned as impacts of tightened financial conditions are expected to impact the economy and ultimately corporate earnings.
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Global Growth Strategy July Commentary
We remain resilient, benefiting from diversified stock selection and attractive valuations despite recent market rotations and challenges in growth sectors.
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Global Value Improvers Strategy July Commentary
Periods of heightened volatility remind us of the importance of diversification and the benefit of having longer term ESG themes, which are less tied to the economic cycle and thus lend stability during extreme market movements.
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Valuation of Infrastructure Assets Q2 2024
In our latest Valuation update, Portfolio Manager, Daniel Chu, discusses the contributors to infrastructure returns in the second quarter of 2024, and weighs in on the factors impacting different infrastructure sectors across the globe.
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Structural Tailwinds Make Utilities High Income and High Growth
Q2 2024 Infrastructure Income Strategy Commentary: Growing power demand from AI data centres is a positive for both utilities and energy infrastructure.
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Rate Pivot Poised to Help Towers and Renewables
Q2 2024 Global Infrastructure Value Strategy Commentary: Increased confidence that we are looking toward a rate-cutting cycle could be the start of the turn for many of our long-duration assets.
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Expanding to Undervalued Geographies
Q2 2024 Global Growth Strategy Commentary: We are broadening out our geographic footprint with new names to take advantage of ideas where we still see significant upside in technology.
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Improvers Outperform on AI Demand
Q2 2024 Global Value Improvers Strategy Commentary: The Strategy outperformed its benchmark, as strong stock selection in our industrials and health care holdings overcame detractors in the financials sector.
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