Connor Teskey

Infrastructure is quickly becoming one of the largest and most exciting investment opportunities. The opportunity set has expanded far beyond traditional assets like toll roads and railroads to include data centers, telecom towers, solar, batteries, and nuclear. This expansion is driven by three durable themes—digitalization of everything, surging global energy demand, and supply chain rewiring for resiliency—that are more relevant today than five years ago and will run through the end of this decade and beyond. Government balance sheets are stretched and large corporates want their own supply-chain infrastructure, creating a large capital need that only private capital can fill. Infrastructure provides an attractive return profile with downside protection, recurring cash generation, and inflation protection, sitting between public equity and debt. Institutional investors have been large allocators for decades, and high-net-worth investors, while still under-allocated, are increasingly gaining access and are expected to follow a similar adoption path. Within alternative investments, infrastructure is expected to capture a disproportionate share of allocations going forward.

Teskey states that despite the war in the Middle East, fundamentals for Data Centers and Energy are "better than ever before" and Brookfield is a "net beneficiary from AI penetration." The market is selling off on geopolitical fear. Brookfield manages real assets (infrastructure, energy) that are essential regardless of political administration. The dip provides an entry into a manager with massive exposure to the secular AI-infrastructure boom. LONG. High-conviction play on real asset demand. Escalation in the Strait of Hormuz could physically threaten assets, though Teskey claims they are diversified.

Teskey states that despite the war in the Middle East, fundamentals for Data Centers and Energy are "better than ever before" and Brookfield is a "net beneficiary from AI penetration." The market is selling off on geopolitical fear. Brookfield manages real assets (infrastructure, energy) that are essential regardless of political administration. The dip provides an entry into a manager with massive exposure to the secular AI-infrastructure boom. LONG. High-conviction play on real asset demand. Escalation in the Strait of Hormuz could physically threaten assets, though Teskey claims they are diversified.

WTI Crude is up ~5% due to US/Israel strikes on Iran. Teskey reinforces that Energy fundamentals are strong. While the US President promised insurance/escorts for tankers, the risk premium in the Strait of Hormuz is real. Energy stocks and commodities act as the primary hedge against this geopolitical escalation. LONG. Geopolitical hedge. De-escalation or increased US supply floods the market.

WTI Crude is up ~5% due to US/Israel strikes on Iran. Teskey reinforces that Energy fundamentals are strong. While the US President promised insurance/escorts for tankers, the risk premium in the Strait of Hormuz is real. Energy stocks and commodities act as the primary hedge against this geopolitical escalation. LONG. Geopolitical hedge. De-escalation or increased US supply floods the market.