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Powering the Future amid the AI Surge
Reports indicate that AI is a major force driving markets, with nearly 50% of S&P 500® earnings estimated to be directly or indirectly linked to AI.1 The narrative surrounding AI earnings and spending is largely focused on the infrastructure development necessary to support the anticipated productivity boom, particularly in data centers and the power infrastructure….
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Seeing Green: The Next Infrastructure Wave
Investment in infrastructure has long been a cornerstone of economic development. It has also been an interesting choice for investors, historically offering stable, predictable cash flows through long-term, inflation-linked contracts, as well as essential services that maintain demand even during economic downturns. At the Crossroads of Multiple Driving Forces In the wake of aging assets…
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Measuring the Global Water Opportunity Set
Look inside the S&P Global Water Index and how it tracks the companies helping the world meet demand for this vital resource.
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Infrastructure to Strengthen a Portfolio in Volatile Times
Key Observations: Infrastructure owners and operators provide real asset exposure in inflationary environments Opportunities for yield on infrastructure continue to be relatively strong Infrastructure companies have delivered consistent operating margins over time How can investors power through the rising inflation, low real yields and sluggish profits in today’s volatile markets? The answer may be pure-play…
Bringing Transparency to Green Bonds
As the global green bond market continues to grow, how are indices helping investors assess greenium and the potential opportunity set? S&P DJI’s Brian Luke joins VanEck’s Bill Sokol and Phil Kirouac for a closer look at how indexing works for green bonds. https://youtu.be/TEomyDhdG0E
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Introducing the S&P Transportation Select Industry FMC Capped Index
The Transportation industry group1 provides transportation infrastructure as well as services to move people or goods. To track the industry group’s performance, S&P Dow Jones Indices offers the S&P Transportation Select Industry Index, S&P Transportation Select Industry FMC Index, and the Dow Jones Transportation Average. To address potential weight concentration issues in the FMC-weighted index,…
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Multi-Asset Income Strategies in a Low Interest Rate Environment
One of the most significant characteristics of the post-financial crisis world has been the global persistence of low, or even negative, interest rates. The entire U.S. Treasury curve yielded below 1% for the first time in history on March 9, 2020, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, before the long end reverted recently on…
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What a Portfolio Might Look Like After Adding a Pinch of Real Assets
In December 2015, S&P Dow Jones Indices launched the S&P Real Assets Index, the first index of its kind, which is designed to measure global property, infrastructure, commodities, and inflation-linked bonds, using liquid and investable component indices that track public equities, fixed income, and futures. The S&P Real Assets Index includes global infrastructure (35%), property…
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Rieger Report: Infrastructure Bonds
With the President’s focus on the U.S. infrastructure this coming week it is a good time to look at the existing infrastructure bond markets. Municipal bonds have long played a critical funding role in the U.S. infrastructure sector. The 19,000 tax-exempt municipal bonds tracked in the S&P Municipal Bond Infrastructure Index mainly consist of investment grade bonds…
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Listed Infrastructure: Bridging the Inflation Hedging Gap
Roger McNamee, the American businessman and sometime musician said “We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant… [since] economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.” In 2013, Transportation for America identified that one in nine U.S. bridges—a jaw-dropping 66,000 of them—are deficient, and…
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