As Europe now begins to recover from the decade old effects of the global financial crisis, investment in new and updated infrastructure has been shrinking. — The region’s sovereign debt crisis, such as in Ireland and Spain, led to deep cuts to infrastructure investment as governments sought to balance the books. According to Statista, the percentage of GDP spent on infrastructure for UK, France and Germany ranged between 2% and 2.2% in 2013 marginally below USA…

Co-Authored with Cherian George, Head of Infrastructure North America and LatAM. Infrastructure has developed from a niche corner of the bank market some thirty years ago to now become a mainstream asset class. Today, joining banks, are pension funds, insurance companies and sovereign wealth funds that have been attracted to infrastructure investment that can offer long term and stable returns. …