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90% of Infrastructure Investors are Direct
Over the past few years, there has been a growing chorus of institutional investors voicing their frustration with the misalignment of interests and high fees associated with third party infrastructure mandates. This frustration has kicked off a trend among investors to (try to) bring assets in-house; indeed, new data show that 90 percent of infrastructure investors make direct investments in the asset class. That's a lot! But there's a slight problem with all this enthusiasm for direct investing: It is incredibly hard to do. The governance and management hurdles are extremely high. And that's precisely why we launched our direct investment research project a little over a year ago! You can read some of our work in this area here and here.
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Posted May 7, 2012 1:54 PM by ashby
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