InfrastructureInvestor.com is the digital companion to our monthly magazine Infrastructure Investor. Combined, they are designed to deliver both breaking news and in-depth analysis and commentary on the people, projects, institutions and issues that are shaping modern infrastructure finance and investment globally.

For us, "infrastructure" is the term that covers the man-made facilities that ensure any economy can operate. It can be segmented further into three broad types: transportation [e.g. railways, roads and airports], utilities [e.g. energy generation and distribution, water and waste processing and telecommunications] and social infrastructure [e.g. schools, hospitals and state housing].

Although traditionally the preserve of governments, the funding and operation of infrastructure today sees significant participation by the private sector - either in partnership with the public sector or by itself. The range of private sector participants has grown alongside the more varied ways of funding what are inherently long-term, capital intensive projects. Financing may now include debt or equity and can come from banks, other financial institutions, developers, funds and other institutional investors. Not only are new infrastructure projects being developed by groups of these institutions but existing infrastructure assets are now being purchased by such syndicates.

The range of projects that the term covers today, its importance to every economy globally, the prominent role of the private sector and its relevance to institutional capital as an asset class to invest in either directly or indirectly is what encourages us to talk about the new infrastructure. Both this site and Infrastructure Investor magazine are dedicated to the new infrastructure.

Click here to visit the Infrastructure Investor magazine website.

The site is published by PEI Media Group Limited, the specialist financial media company that is focused exclusively on the alternative asset classes of private equity, real estate and infrastructure.

We are an independent company with over 70 staff based in three regional offices - London, New York and Singapore - and it is wholly owned by management and employees.

We started in London in November 2001 when a team of managers at financial media group Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC, with the backing of US-based investors, bought out a group of assets that centred on the website PrivateEquityOnline.com. At the time the new company was called InvestorAccess, and the aim was to grow a specialist media business that focused on alternative assets - and private equity in particular. From the outset we wanted to be close to both the holders of institutional capital [investors] and those managers involved in alternative assets [funds]. Our conviction then, as now, was that alternative assets were of growing importance to investors and that the fund management groups within these asset classes were of increasing importance to everyone - governments, corporations, the financial industry to name but three.

Today we publish five magazines, host five news websites, manage what is probably the most extensive set of databases dedicated to alternative assets, run 22 annual conferences globally, publish a library of 20 books and directories and have a fast growing training business. 

We have worked hard to build a reputation for consistently delivering top quality journalism that is written by our own staff and is delivered via accomplished print and digital channels. The same principles of accuracy, genuine market knowledge and excellence of delivery inform our data, events and specialist publication activities also.  

We have members of our award-winning editorial team sat in all three of our offices [London, New York and Singapore] and likewise our conference business runs events based from each of our locations. Our multilingual data teams in each office are continually feeding and updating our online databases under the supervision of seasoned analysts.

We feel strongly that the industries we cover are resolutely global and inherently cross-border - so to cover them effectively we must be able to connect with them in every market and in any time zone. We also expect to provide the most relevant information via a variety of channels, ensuring always that our clients value the insight and knowledge we provide them.

PEI: the alternative asset information group