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Infrastructure

The assets a society cannot do without.

Long-duration, often inflation-linked income from the essential physical and digital backbone of modern life, from grids and roads to data centres.

Strategy

Essential assets tend to earn essential income.

Infrastructure is the physical and digital foundation on which economies run: the networks that move people, power, water and data. Because these assets are essential and often difficult to replicate, the income they produce tends to be steady, long-lived and frequently linked to inflation.

For a long-term portfolio, that combination is valuable. Infrastructure can provide durable income that holds its real value over decades, with returns that depend less on the economic cycle than most other assets.

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Essential
Assets a society depends on every day
Inflation
Income often contractually linked to prices
Long
Very long-duration, stable cash flows
Resilient
Demand less tied to the economic cycle
Energy & Transition28%
Digital & Data24%
Transport22%
Utilities16%
Social Infrastructure10%

Where we invest

Diversified across the backbone.

We favour sectors with the most durable, structurally growing demand, the energy transition and the digital networks that carry modern life, while retaining the stable ballast of transport and regulated utilities. The illustrative mix reflects a representative diversified mandate.

Illustrative sector allocation, not a forecast or a recommendation.

Chosen for durable, real income.

How we access it

From ballast to growth.

01

Core

Mature, regulated or contracted assets with highly predictable cash flows, held principally for stable, inflation-linked income.

02

Core-plus

Assets with a modest growth or improvement angle, offering a little more return for a little more risk.

03

Value-add & greenfield

Building or transforming assets, especially in energy transition and digital, for higher potential return.

Suitability & risk

What to weigh before allocating.

01

Illiquidity

Infrastructure is held for the very long term. Capital is committed for years, sometimes decades.

02

Regulatory risk

Many assets are regulated, and changes to rules or tariffs can affect returns.

03

Construction risk

Greenfield projects carry the risk of delay and cost overrun before they generate income.

04

Leverage

Infrastructure often uses long-term borrowing, which must be structured prudently.

Questions

What clients ask us first.

Many infrastructure assets earn revenue under long-term contracts or regulatory frameworks that adjust prices in line with inflation. A toll road, a regulated utility or a contracted power asset may see its income rise automatically as the price level rises, which helps protect the real value of returns over time.
Because the assets are essential, demand for them tends to be more stable than for the broader economy: people still use power, water and networks in a recession. This can make infrastructure income more resilient than most, though it is not immune to economic or regulatory change.
The shift to cleaner energy and the growth of digital infrastructure are among the largest investment themes of the coming decades, requiring enormous, sustained capital. For long-term investors, they represent a significant and growing part of the infrastructure opportunity.

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