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Infrastructure

A generational opportunity in infrastructure debt

Don Dimitrievich
Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager for Energy Infrastructure Credit at Nuveen
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Infrastructure debt represents a diversification strategy for private credit allocators — combining exposure to a rapidly growing addressable market with defensive credit characteristics that differentiate it from corporate direct lending strategies that most private credit portfolios leverage today. At a moment when investors are re-examining concentration risk in direct lending — particularly exposure to software and other sectors facing AI-driven disruption — infrastructure debt offers a structurally different return profile: backed by physical, essential assets, with contracted cash flows and inflation protection, lower historical default rates, and reduced correlation to broader macro and credit indices. Read our latest report on the infrastructure debt opportunity today.

 

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