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Delta Variant Creating Regional Divergences

August 3, 2021

In the latest Valuation of Infrastructure Assets, Portfolio Manager Nick Langley details how ClearBridge infrastructure portfolios are positioned to meet a market where vaccines are improving the visibility of cash flows for toll roads and freight rail, though COVID-19 variant strains are complicating global reopenings, and where utilities are balancing interest rate headwinds with the strongest growth rates in decades.

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