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World needs to spend $60tln on infrastructure by 2030

Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia:

The B20, the business arm of the G20 in terms of government organizations, estimates that at least $60tln is needed to be spent on infrastructure by 2030 globally, said Greg Goodsell from 4D Infrastructure, a global listed infrastructure manager based in Sydney, Australia.

Speaking at the latest Opalesque Australia Roundtable, Goodsell also alerted that coming out of the global financial crisis (GFC), most countries around the world are fiscally constrained post GFC with the majority already having big debts and running deficits. Essentially, they are struggling to pay operating expenses.

"This means they are not going to be able to fund this infrastructure spend," he said. "So the point I am getting at is, huge amounts of money needs to be spent, otherwise the global infrastructure arteries of the world will slow up. But that funding cannot all be done via government because they just don’t have that capacity. Therefore a lot of privately financed infrastructure will come online over the next 20 years as an absolute necessity in a market."

Under this scenario, 4D Infrastructure is looking at "enormous opportunity" and expects rapid growth over the next decade. Goodsell pointed out that there is still a big unlisted market for infrastructure investment in Australia and around the world. All t......................

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