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Investment Notes

For years, large institutional investors have flocked to private investments in global infrastructure because of their distinctive and potentially rewarding diversification benefits. But, most infrastructure funds were exclusively for institutional investors — individual investors had no way to reap the rewards of these funds. Now, both individuals and institutions have access to infrastructure investments through the new First American Global Infrastructure Fund.

The open-end fund, which has been available to select institutional investors since December 2007, is one of the first of its kind in the industry to be open to individual investors. The fund seeks to provide investors with the benefits of publicly traded global infrastructure investments that capitalize on the estimated $41 trillion that will be required to modernize and expand the world's infrastructure during the next 25 years.

The new Global Infrastructure Fund strives to provide long-term growth of capital and income by investing in equity securities issued by U.S. and non-U.S. global infrastructure companies. The fund invests in approximately 100 publicly traded infrastructure stocks of global companies in the transportation, energy/utilities, communications, and social infrastructure sectors - companies that operate water systems, gas and electrical distribution networks, toll roads, airports, rail systems, renewable energy sources, outsourced government functions, etc.

The Global Infrastructure Fund seeks to capture the historically high returns of global infrastructure investments. Global infrastructure assets have provided historically higher portfolio returns than other traditional asset classes, with five-year returns for the S&P Global Infrastructure Index of 27.12 percent, three-year returns of 21 percent, and one-year returns of 5.87 percent.

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