As IJGlobal builds momentum towards “The Miami Conference” – IJ LatAm 2025 – the Infra Dig podcast turns its focus on equity engagement in infrastructure and energy across Latin America.

IJGlobal editorial director Angus Leslie Melville talks to Susana Lopez, an investment director at Climate Fund Managers (CFM), about the regional market.

In a podcast that runs for a little more than 32 minutes, Susana takes the listener through this vibrant market from the perspective of an investment manager that has a primary focus on mitigating and building resilience to climate change in areas most affected by its consequences.

This latest episode can be accessed on Spotify (embedded above) as well as through Apple Podcasts and on the Amazon service. It is also hosted across a slew of other platforms and is open access on all of them.

Susana – who will be speaking on a panel at IJ LatAm which runs from 10-12 March (2025) and is being staged at 1 Hotel South Beach, Miami – gives her view of the market in a far-reaching conversation.

She says: “We are certainly seeing an increase in equity investment in Latin America for infrastructure and this has to do with both circumstantial matters recently – particularly with the rise in interest rates, but also more fundamental drivers.

“So, investments are being driven by growth in the markets that we have experienced, and also by very strong fundamentals of Latin America when it comes to investing in infrastructure.

“In recent years, the rise in interest rates has really shifted the projects from being able to afford a lot of debt into their investments and they have shifted a little bit more into equity or short-term financing.

“Vehicles like bridge financings and mini-perms have become more prevalent but in many circumstances those instruments are not so accessible… and that has left a very broad opportunity for equity to drive into that gap.”

For a helicopter view on equity investing in infrastructure and energy across Latin America, tune into this latest episode.