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Lending to essential infrastructure
Infrastructure debt can fit into a variety of portfolio allocations. By allocating to infrastructure debt, investors can seek exposure to assets essential for the functioning of society – assets often able to perform regardless of the economic cycle.
Whether lending to toll roads, power plants or port facilities, these are assets that are often the sole provider of a service to a community.
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Essential assets can provide market cycle resilience - We lend to assets essential for the functioning of society – assets often able to perform regardless of the economic cycle. Whether lending to toll roads, power plants or port facilities, these are assets that are often the sole provider of a service to a community.
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Experience helps to identify relative value - The investment team at IFM Investors has decades of experience in the infrastructure debt market. Our experience means we have seen that technology changes that occur within the broader society drive changes within the infrastructure world.
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