Learn More: Building Bridges VI
K&L Gates, SovereigNET, The Fletcher School’s Network for Sovereign Wealth and Global Capital, and the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds are pleased to announce our Sixth Annual symposium on global infrastructure on October, 18 2018. This central theme of this gathering is, “Financing Public Infrastructure in North America: Myths, Risks, Realities.”
The Trump Administration’s plans to mobilize over $1T in public infrastructure investment in the US have raised expectations of major opportunities for developers, bankers, and investors. While seemingly presenting vast potential for stable, long-term returns, infrastructure investment in the US is complicated by a wide variety of factors—including decentralized fiscal management, competitive sources of market finance, and local political cycles—that can obscure traditional investment analysis. Building Bridges VI will dissect the administration’s infrastructure initiatives by parsing myths and risks to unmask the potential scale and scope of new investment opportunities in US public infrastructure.
The Building Bridges platform brings together institutional investors, policy makers, development bankers, service providers, academics, and public-sector partners to examine the various dimensions of infrastructure as a long-term asset class. Our sessions are designed to encourage wide-ranging professional, cross-disciplinary discussion. Four key themes will frame our 2018 program: project origination, engaging the private sector, identifying and mitigating political risk, and the intermediation benefits—and costs—of institutional funds.