Insights

This is the ninth in our series of Trip Insights, where we share those experiences. It follows a trip during February/March 2020 when Peter Aquilina, 4D Senior Investment Analyst, completed an extensive company engagement and calling program in the United States meeting with management teams from Oil & Gas Infrastructure, Regulated Utilities and Renewables.

How will the impacts of COVID-19 differ between emerging markets and their developed counterparts?

In this follow up article, 4D Senior Investment Analysts Peter Aquilina and Mark Jones revisit the North American midstream thesis, and stress test assumptions for a dramatically lower commodity price environment and an overall slower global growth scenario – to determine whether in reality the fundamentals/earnings will prove to be infrastructure (or not) and if this collapse represents a buying

We believe the coronavirus issue will pass, but not without obvious and significant personal and economic pain including its impact on global growth.

In this article, Sarah Shaw (Global Portfolio Manager & Chief Investment Officer) looks at: (1) the current state of play with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues around the world; (2) corporate controversies that defined 2019; and (3) our approach to incorporating ESG factors into our investment process, demonstrating why ESG is so important to 4D.

This is the eighth in our series of Trip Insights where we share those experiences.

This is the seventh in our series of Trip Insights, where we share those experiences. It follows a trip in 2019 when Mark Jones, Senior Investment Analyst, completed an extensive company engagement and calling program in Canada, meeting with management teams from Oil & Gas Infrastructure, Regulated Utilities, Renewables and Transport (road, rail, air and sea).

Populism is spreading rapidly and globally, and becoming more aggressive in its implementation and execution. It traverses national borders and can infiltrate all political affiliations. It represents a huge challenge for modern liberal democracies, as the risk of populism is severe political and economic disruption and stagnation.

In this article, 4D Infrastructure’s Peter Aquilina and Greg Goodsell review the US midstream sector and identify a number of changes underway which they believe will see the creation of real shareholder value over the medium term.