Our infrastructure investing success and competitive advantage are built on six key principles.
Targeting high-quality assets
We target core infrastructure assets that typically have strong market positions, conservative leverage, predictable regulatory environments and high barriers to entry.
Managing for long-term net returns
Our infrastructure asset management strategies target a total return outcome that comprizes capital growth and cash yield using conservative levels of leverage. We aim to assist assets to deliver capacity enhancing capital investments that meet the long-term needs of customers and the community.
Focused on value creation
Our team can facilitate large, complex transactions, as well as smaller, accretive opportunities. We are also able to position individual operating companies and platform investments to allow for bilateral transactions.
A large, dedicated investment team
Our team of infrastructure specialists are able to implement appropriate governance structures and proactively work with experienced and capable management teams.
Unique proprietary portfolio construction
Our infrastructure portfolio methodology (InFRAME) analyzes the underlying revenue streams and value drivers of infrastructure assets.
An integrated Sustainable Investing approach
We take an integrated approach to sustainable investing considerations. We believe this enhances the productive capacity and net performance of our portfolio companies over the long term.
Infrastructure knowledge hub
Infrastructure is increasingly on investors’ minds. Our 2025 Infrastructure Horizons report comes as investors are looking at new opportunities in growing areas like artificial intelligence, data centres, renewable natural gas, sustainable aviation fuel and the energy transition, as the asset class continues to mature. Read more in our full report on our Infrastructure knowledge hub.
Target sectors
We invest in essential infrastructure assets spanning a diverse range of sectors and asset types. Characteristics that tend to underpin our investments include monopolistic positioning, long concession life, predictable revenues, inflation protection, exposure to economic growth and a stable regulatory environment.
| Sector | Transportation | Utilities | Energy | Digital | Social infrastructure |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asset types | Toll roads | Gas & Electric | Renewables | Telecommunications | Education |
| Airports | Waste & Wastewater | Gas processing | Data storage | Aged care | |
| Seaports | District heating/ cooling | Pipelines | Government | ||
| Rail | Energy storage | Public transport | |||
| Diversified |
Our investment approach
How we manage our infrastructure investments has been shaped by decades of experience.
We take a long-term approach and choose assets that typically have strong market positions, a predictable regulatory environment, high barriers to entry, limited demand-elasticity and long lives.
Primarily, we invest in OECD countries, with a focus on North America, UK/Europe and Australia, across a range of sectors. Once acquired, we adopt a hold, manage and reinvest strategy, with opportunistic exits.
InFRAME – a unique portfolio approach
In 2011 we launched InFRAMETM, a three-phase methodology that analyzes the underlying revenue streams and value drivers of infrastructure assets.
We believe InFRAME has proven to be invaluable in our due diligence and portfolio management processes, and differentiates IFM Investors in the marketplace. It enables us to:
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Generate a deeper, bottom-up understanding of each asset's risk and revenue profile and the influence this has on a wider investment portfolio.
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Build quantitative insights into the way infrastructure assets, and the sub-sectors to which they belong, respond to macro-economic drivers and scenarios.
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Create greater awareness of strategic allocation within an infrastructure portfolio, based upon the revenue characteristics of the underlying assets.
70,000+
employees across our portfolio companies in 20+ countries
US$74.7bn
infrastructure equity AUM (assets under management)
30
years of experience investing in private markets
130+
team of infrastructure equity specialists
42
portfolio assets in communities across 20+ countries
16
airports
(in six countries, including UK, Austria, Australia and Malta)
23*
toll roads
(in eight countries, including US, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia)
9
ports
(in five countries, including Canada, Australia, Poland and Turkey)
11,000
miles of pipeline
(A strategic stake in US petroleum energy infrastructure)
38,600kcbm
of storage capacity across 20+ countries
As at 31 Dec 2024
*Note: excludes greenfields/in-development toll roads
More information
For more information about our Infrastructure investment and asset management capabilities, please contact us online or reach out to your regional Client Solutions team.
