Perspectives
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Infrastructure Outlook: Bridging the Valuation Gap
Opportunities continue to be widespread across the infrastructure landscape, with strong fundamentals and the market still massively underestimating the growth in electricity demand driven by AI and data growth.
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Global Infrastructure Income Strategy November Commentary
We believe the defensive characteristics of infrastructure will remain valuable in what we expect to be a more volatile market in the near-term.
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Global Infrastructure Value Strategy November Commentary
Strength in infrastructure was concentrated in the U.S., where GDP-sensitive energy infrastructure benefit from expectations of greater oil and gas production raising volumes for pipelines.
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Developed Markets Infrastructure Income Model November Commentary
During the month, we initiated positions in U.S. energy infrastructure company ONEOK and French toll road operator Vinci. We also exited our positions in Spanish gas utility Enagas and Spanish electric utility Iberdrola.
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Emerging Markets Strategy November Commentary
Opportunities continue to be widespread across emerging market infrastructure.
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Global Infrastructure Income Strategy October Commentary
Our global listed infrastructure strategies outperformed global equities and most infrastructure benchmarks for the month.
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Global Infrastructure Value Strategy October Commentary
We are expecting bond volatility to reduce and market breadth to continue to broaden — as that occurs, we expect that the market will increasingly recognise the strong fundamentals and long-term themes of infrastructure.
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Developed Markets Infrastructure Income Model October Commentary
Given the prospect of slowing growth from elevated levels as well as declining interest rates, we believe the defensive and income-producing qualities of infrastructure will become more apparent, as was evident in the third quarter.
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Emerging Markets Strategy October Commentary
Higher bond yields pressured rate-sensitive sectors such as renewables and communications, while energy infrastructure performed well.
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Infrastructure Outpaces Equities in Market Rotation
Q3 2024 Infrastructure Income Strategy Commentary: A market rotation to a mixture of defensive, commodity- and rate-sensitive securities benefited listed infrastructure.
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Broadening Market Lifts Infrastructure
Q3 2024 Global Infrastructure Value Strategy Commentary: The defensive and income-producing qualities of infrastructure should continue to become more apparent and reflected in market pricing.
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Valuation of Infrastructure Assets Q3 2024
In our latest Valuation update, Portfolio Manager, Simon Ong, discusses the contributors to infrastructure returns in the third quarter of 2024, and weighs in on the factors impacting different infrastructure sectors across the globe.
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