Investors eye infrastructure sector for diversification and to ride demand

[SINGAPORE] The infrastructure sector is piquing investor interest, given that data centres and the growing number of electric vehicles are consumers of energy, and will drive the demand for power-generation facilities.

Based on a global investor sentiment survey by data platform Preqin, the share of investors planning to commit more capital to the asset class in the next 12 months rose five percentage points to 37 per cent – the fastest growth since 2020.

Institutional investors in Asia are now also nursing a bigger appetite for infrastructure investment, said Sadek Wahba, founder, chairman and managing partner at infrastructure-focused private equity (PE) firm I Squared Capital.