Preqin Spotlight Podcast: Addressing Europe's social infrastructure investment gap

In collaboration with CAIA, our new podcast explores how fund managers, investors, and other industry professionals are looking to do good while doing well

Every city needs hospitals, schools, civic facilities, and homes that working families can afford. But due to fiscal constraints, European governments have cut back on investing in social infrastructure. That’s left private capital funds to step in.

Over the last decade, the number of private capital funds investing in European social infrastructure has more than tripled, while the amount raised has more than doubled, from $2.1bn in 2011 to $4.5bn in 2021, Preqin data shows.

But what exactly are fund managers doing to improve essential services, other than providing capital? And how possible is it to make a return?

In our first episode John G. Levy, Director of Impact at Franklin Real Asset Advisors, shares why what he calls “mission alignment” is so important, the challenges of measuring impact, and how he expects the social infrastructure space to change over time.

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