Repositioning lower mid-market investments into more competitive parts of the infrastructure world represents a real opportunity to add value, says Ross Posner, managing partner at Ridgewood Infrastructure
Wilmington Trust’s managing director, project finance Will Marder
looks forward to continued growth in 2021 as the market emerges
from a challenging year with strong foundations
Digital infrastructure has earned its stripes as an essential service during the pandemic. That will have significant implications for the future of the asset class, say Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners’ Yacine Saidji and John Watson
Investment in storage will be a critical step in the evolution of renewable energy infrastructure as an asset class, say MetLife Investment Management’s head of infrastructure and project finance, John Tanyeri, and director Stuart Ashton
While some segments of the transportation infrastructure market have been ravaged by the pandemic, e-transport is set to soar, says AMP Capital’s head of clean energy for the Americas, Anthony Hadley
Institutional lenders have clear advantages to offer borrowers; the onus to educate the market is on them, says Alessandro Merlo of UBS Asset Management.
Future generations will judge us on the decisions we are making now, says the CEO of Austrian infrastructure bank Kommunalkredit, Bernd Fislage.
Risk, by its very nature, is hard to predict, and has not always been accurately reflected in the pricing and structuring of deals, says Alexander Waller, head of infrastructure debt at Whitehelm Capital.
The asset class is adding bulk, both in terms of the sectors it targets and the types of financing it can offer to borrowers, says Karen Azoulay, head of infrastructure debt at BNP Paribas Asset Management.
Asset managers that deployed through 2020 are in an enhanced negotiating position to optimise terms, says BRIDGE CIO, global head of infrastructure, real assets and structured finance and EdR UK CEO Jean-Francis Dusch.