I Squared Sees Government Policies Driving Infrastructure Bets

A wave of economic nationalism from Germany to Australia will be a boon to infrastructure investing, according to the co-founder of $40 billion buyout firm I Squared Capital.

Sovereign policies aimed at bringing back production activities, combined with inflation that will remain as high as 4% to 5% annually for developed countries, have driven the nearly $15 billion that I Squared deployed over the last three years for its third fund, Gautam Bhandari said in an interview.

The Miami-based infrastructure investment firm aims to make equity investments of between $500 million to $600 million per deal, said Bhandari, ...