Can investors make a return on sustainability?

"We see really good value creation investing in sustainability," said our guest in this episode of Infrastructure Connections. Alex Ayscough is an Investment Director at the infrastructure investment firm Morrison.

"I think sustainability provided investment opportunities for us, and a lot of other infrastructure investors as well."

Alex holds a Master of Applied Finance from Macquarie University, a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology Sydney, and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She focuses on originating new investment opportunities and managing infrastructure assets across Australia and New Zealand. She also serves as a Director on several infrastructure-related boards, including Transgrid and Altogether Group. Alex was named Infrastructure Investor's 2024 Rising Star in Infrastructure Finance, saying, "Sustainability is both a driver of investment and foundational to long-term value creation."

The ISC is focused on both valorising infrastructure sustainability and providing the framework to achieve it. In order to realize gains, proponents need to incorporate sustainability early, long before they start looking for funding. This allows funding institutions and private investors to align their own internal sustainability KPIs with the projects they invest in. This helps ensure that the projects carry through with sustainability initiatives and realise those returns.

"What we've seen is that those more nebulous physical risks of climate change are translating now into very real commercial and financial risk. They are now starting to form much more a part of the core due diligence on a new investment."

Sustainability can provide core value creation and returns through a strong focus on:

Economic

Environmental

Governance

Social

Infrastructure is more than an investment in concrete and steel. It's an investment in our collective future.

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S3E12 - Infrastructure Finance w/ Alex Ayscough