Infrastructure ETFs Target Global Trend

I was recently asked if infrastructure investing should be considered its own asset class. The building and renovation of highways and utilities is going to be an important theme for the next decade, boosting the stocks and exchange traded funds that track related industries.

Put simply, a middle class is slowly emerging in places where there was no middle class and these people will need running water, electricity and cars. Money will be spent to build roads in developing nations and update old infrastructure in the U.S.

Most airport and toll-road stocks are foreign and trade on the pink sheets, which makes them difficult to research and access. However, you can find information if you spend enough time looking. ...