Insights

Hear from Sarah Shaw, 4D Infrastructure’s Global Portfolio Manager and CIO, discuss the impact of COVID-19 on infrastructure

In this edition of Global Matters, Sarah Shaw (4D CIO & Global Portfolio Manager) revisits listed infrastructure’s unique and compelling characteristics, outlining why 4D continues to love the sector and why we believe it will be central to the global economic recovery when it comes.

This is the ninth in our series of Trip Insights, where we share those experiences. It follows a trip during February/March 2020 when Peter Aquilina, 4D Senior Investment Analyst, completed an extensive company engagement and calling program in the United States meeting with management teams from Oil & Gas Infrastructure, Regulated Utilities and Renewables.

How will the impacts of COVID-19 differ between emerging markets and their developed counterparts?

Research house Zenith Investment Partners has given the 4D Global Infrastructure Fund a rating of ‘Approved’ in its first review of the Fund.

In this follow up article, 4D Senior Investment Analysts Peter Aquilina and Mark Jones revisit the North American midstream thesis, and stress test assumptions for a dramatically lower commodity price environment and an overall slower global growth scenario – to determine whether in reality the fundamentals/earnings will prove to be infrastructure (or not) and if this collapse represents a buying

We believe the coronavirus issue will pass, but not without obvious and significant personal and economic pain including its impact on global growth.

In this article, Sarah Shaw (Global Portfolio Manager & Chief Investment Officer) looks at: (1) the current state of play with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues around the world; (2) corporate controversies that defined 2019; and (3) our approach to incorporating ESG factors into our investment process, demonstrating why ESG is so important to 4D.

This is the eighth in our series of Trip Insights where we share those experiences.