institutional investors now view tower and other digital infrastructure assets in the same way they once viewed real estate holdings. Traditionally, real estate was viewed as an asset with predictable and strong cash flows and a lower correlation with equity markets. Also, such assets are believed to be more protected from inflation.
In other words, institutional investors now view digital infrastructure in the same way they view transportation, energy and other utility assets.
Infrastructure assets are commonly used to diversify portfolios.
As with utilities, barriers to competition were important. Over the past few decades, digital infrastructure assets have also been “de-risked” to a large extent, moving them closer to the traditional real estate model.
In search of yield, infrastructure investors also are taking a more-active stance in management, where they might previously have limited their scope to investment-only approaches. Some 80 percent to 90 percent of institutional investors express interest in digital infrastructure assets.
Though some digital infrastructure investors are active only in “hard” assets such as towers, data centers and networks, others view the broader ecosystem as including applications and services plus devices.
source: Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
That view of “hard and soft” is essentially “tangible and intangible” parts of the infrastructure ecosystem.
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