Infrastructure Finance: The Business of Infrastructure for a Sustainable Future
A comprehensive look at the emergence of infrastructure finance
Just as infrastructure development acts as a catalyst for economic growth, it is also changing the landscape for potential investors and the burgeoning field of infrastructure finance. Infrastructure systems for transportation, utilities, and public works are essential for economic growth and have quickly developed into an emerging alternative asset class.
InfrastructureFinance examines how the activities associated with updating and creating efficient transportation and communications, reliable and affordable energy, clean water, and other essential systems, have become a profitable financial endeavor. Recently, providing, operating, and maintaining infrastructure has advanced as a recognized and important investment sector that reaches beyond earlier business models. InfrastructureFinance puts this field in perspective and details what you need to know to succeed within it.
- An informative look at infrastructure finance-an emerging alternative investment for all types of institutional investors
- Dissects the central organizational and financial issues behind the revolutions that are occurring in infrastructure management and finance
- Contains detailed guidance for navigating the dynamic field of infrastructure finance
- Discusses infrastructure as arteries of life for a better world
- Highlights infrastructure undergoing transformations to adapt to turbulent environments
- Focuses on Green infrastructure to balance economic and environmental changes
As infrastructure finance continues to grow in importance, you'll need to enhance your understanding of its essential aspects. InfrastructureFinance will provide you with the insights to achieve this goal.
Infrastructure Investing: Managing Risks & Rewards for Pensions, Insurance Companies & Endowments
Invaluable information regarding one of the biggest worldwide growth areas in investing-infrastructure assets
Infrastructure investing is about to explode on the worldwide scene. The fact is that real money will need to be spent on real projects-which will present real opportunities for stable, long-term returns. But infrastructure assets have unique characteristics and the investments and funds that will likely rise up must be suitably structured to serve investor needs.
Author Rajeev Sawant has been analyzing infrastructure investments, funds, and project financing programs for nearly five years, and with this book, he presents information that will be invaluable to lenders, pension funds, insurance companies, investment funds, rating agencies, and even governments.
- Presents comprehensive data analysis on infrastructure cases worldwide
- Analyzes the opportunities as well as the pitfalls of infrastructure investing
- Focuses on the needs of pensions, insurance companies, and endowments interested in infrastructure investing
For the next decade, worldwide economic growth and increased employment-as well as investment returns-will come from infrastructure projects. This book will help you understand today's dynamic infrastructure asset class and quickly get you up to speed on the unique risks and rewards associated with it.