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Can infrastructure weather the next storm?
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Understanding the risk profile of GDP-linked assets
Infrastructure has generally shown resilience in economic slowdowns, and through proprietary risk management and diversified exposure across defensive and cyclical sub-sectors, it potentially offers investors meaningful downside protection and attractive long-term risk-adjusted returns.
Key Takeaways
- Infrastructure has proved resilient in past economic slowdowns and can outperform traditional assets in periods of low growth and high inflation
- We use proprietary investment risk management and portfolio construction tools to analyse the susceptibility of each of our fund assets’ revenue streams to GDP-linked risks and diversify exposures
- While infrastructure sub-sectors such as utilities have well understood defensive properties, other sub-sectors such as toll roads, seaports and airports have historically provided important downside protections and positive long-term risk-adjusted returns for investors
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