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Utilities Looking at Best Growth Prospects in Decades

May 12, 2022

 

Portfolio Manager Nick Langley discusses how amid supply chain disruptions and labor shortages, the risk/return attractiveness of listed infrastructure is beginning to tilt toward utilities from more economically sensitive user-pays assets, even while traffic on toll roads, commuter rail and airports continues to recover.

 

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