Airport investment: the top 10 investors from CAPA's Global Airport Investors Database

An exercise to revise the CAPA Global Airport Investors Database (GAID) was recently completed. It defined the 800 individual profiles and allocated them into four categories: major global investor; active investor; potential investor and lapsed investor.

This short review looks at who those really big investors and operators are, as measured by the number of their foreign investments. It details a little of their history, and examines what the future might hold for them.

53 profile entries in the GAID are of 'Major Global Investors' - investors in at least five airports. Equal #1 are Utilico Emerging Markets and Children's Investment Fund.

When first produced in 2011, the CAPA database listed fewer than 250 investors listed; it has now passed beyond 800 entries. It differs from the very few other such databases in that once a profile entry is made it remains there in perpetuity.