Speaker Series - Chris Simard (JP Morgan)

Chris Simard, Executive Director, is an Investment Specialist in the Infrastructure Investments Group. In this role, he is responsible for capital raising and advising clients for the firm’s infrastructure investment platform. Chris works with a variety of Institutions, with a specific focus on the United Kingdom, Northern Europe, the Middle East and the United States. Chris has spent the past 10 years working at J.P Morgan in both Asset Management and the Investment Bank. The fund is a diversified open-ended strategy that invests in private infrastructure equity and focuses on core assets where most of the return is cash yield. The IIF Team has over 15 years of operating experience, using scale, control positions and existing portfolio construction to reduce volatility and deliver stable cash yield. The fund has 26.8 billion in assets with 20 portfolio companies (783 assets).