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Wilmington Trust’s managing director, project finance Will Marder looks forward to continued growth in 2021 as the market emerges from a challenging year with strong foundations

Investment in storage will be a critical step in the evolution of renewable energy infrastructure as an asset class, say MetLife Investment Management’s head of infrastructure and project finance, John Tanyeri, and director Stuart Ashton

While some segments of the transportation infrastructure market have been ravaged by the pandemic, e-transport is set to soar, says AMP Capital’s head of clean energy for the Americas, Anthony Hadley

Institutional lenders have clear advantages to offer borrowers; the onus to educate the market is on them, says Alessandro Merlo of UBS Asset Management.

Future generations will judge us on the decisions we are making now, says the CEO of Austrian infrastructure bank Kommunalkredit, Bernd Fislage.

Risk, by its very nature, is hard to predict, and has not always been accurately reflected in the pricing and structuring of deals, says Alexander Waller, head of infrastructure debt at Whitehelm Capital.

The asset class is adding bulk, both in terms of the sectors it targets and the types of financing it can offer to borrowers, says Karen Azoulay, head of infrastructure debt at BNP Paribas Asset Management.

Asset managers that deployed through 2020 are in an enhanced negotiating position to optimise terms, says BRIDGE CIO, global head of infrastructure, real assets and structured finance and EdR UK CEO Jean-Francis Dusch.

The global pandemic has allowed infrastructure debt to prove its resilience credentials beyond all doubt, says head of infrastructure debt at Natixis Investment Managers, Céline Tercier.

The growing global focus on sustainability creates a unique opportunity for the asset class, say the co-head of Macquarie’s infrastructure debt business Kit Hamilton and its head of risk Sophia Alison.