Infrastructure needs will fuel real asset plays for decades

Gaal Surugeon, portfolio manager at Brookfield Asset Management's Public Securities Group, says that investing in physical assets like infrastructure and real estate provides inflation protection with stabilized yield potential and long-term growth prospects tied to the economic cycle, but the short- and mid-term prospects for real assets is also attractive now, given the economic recovery, investments in infrastructure and the need to fund upgrades to the underpinnings of society like airports, toll roads and more.