Recently our CEO, Jeff Nelson, spoke at the MetLife Investment Management Insurance CIO Summit in New York to discuss U.S. water infrastructure investment.
Key takeaways:
- The need for investment in water and wastewater infrastructure is vast, due to both aging systems and high demand from data centers, agriculture and industry.
- Water and wastewater infrastructure encompasses a wide variety of investable assets that fit different risk-reward profiles.
- As policymakers and the public focus more intently on the water supply, private infrastructure lenders and developers must ensure they are financing sustainable infrastructure systems and underwriting to adequately manage water supply risk.
- Water and wastewater systems have many of the key attributes of other types of private infrastructure debt, including long-dated, contractual cash flows; covenants and other structural protections; and potential inflation linkages and pass-throughs.
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