Shane Shurmer
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What Shane Shurmer has said on podcasts
27 statements
Utilities delivering 12% EPS growth for ten years will be rerated.
“structurally it's the best I've ever seen. I've never seen a utility grow its EPS at 12% for the next 10 years. If they can deliver on, on that, they will get a rerate.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 0:05
Infrastructure returns have been more stable than broader equities over 25–30 years.
“you can get those characteristics out into the returns you ultimately deliver to clients. And you just have to look at the last 25, 30 years of infrastructure returns have been far more stable than broader equities.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 4:04
Regulation assures stable returns on regulated infrastructure assets.
“regulation is such a beautiful thing because it really assures you get a regulated, stable return on a regulated asset base”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 6:24
Ninety percent of the portfolio passes inflation through to customers.
“when you think about our portfolio, we talk about 90% directly or indirectly passing through inflation.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 8:17
Electrification, AI, energy security and resilience are decade-long infrastructure themes.
“they're decade-long themes and it's very, very, very, very structural.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 11:57
Average US utility EPS growth is 9%, with some holdings growing 12%.
“Now the average US utility grows its EPS at 9%. We have some in the portfolio at 12% with yields of 3 to 4%”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 12:41
Grid optimization will make electricity grids more stable and lower costs.
“we're going to have far more stable grids, electricity. The cost, I believe, should be lower because of the way we're able to optimise it.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 15:07
Nuclear power will be increasingly built worldwide.
“nuclear power is definitely coming back into vogue and will be increasingly built around the world”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 15:49
Data-center electricity demand will grow about 20% annually for four to five years.
“Data's demanding electricity at kind of 20% per annum over the next 4 or 5 years.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 16:09
Wind-farm operating utilization has increased to about 60%.
“a wind farm would operate 30% of the time, 40% of the time. Now they've got them up to 60%.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 17:24
Infrastructure is central to delivering AI services.
“infrastructure is very much at the core of AI.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 19:49
Infrastructure bottlenecks will continue causing AI data-center delays.
“there are definitely bottlenecks out there which are causing and will continue to cause delays over time.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 21:56
AI spending poses limited earnings-delivery risk for infrastructure companies over seven to ten years.
“there is very limited risk over the next, I'd say, 7 to 10 years of their earnings delivery based on AI spend.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 23:07
A sharp CapEx decline would probably not slow infrastructure growth for five to seven years.
“even if CapEx falls off a cliff, cliff, which conceivably it may, even though I think it's very unlikely, but it may, that won't slow growth in the next 5 years, 6 or 7 likely.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 23:24
Local opposition is the biggest risk to AI data-center infrastructure.
“I think the biggest risk is NIMBYism.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 24:32
Space-based data centers are currently uneconomic because launch costs are too high.
“at the moment, launch costs are just way too much.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 26:00
AI has raised the portfolio's highest utility EPS-growth rate from 9% to 12%.
“They've just now been supercharged with AI. So now it's moved up to the highest EPS grow within our portfolio is 12 rather than what it would've been 5 years ago, which would've been 9.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 28:04
The UK government lacks the funds to nationalize the water sector.
“The single structural problem is the UK government does not have the money to nationalise the water sector.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 30:10
UK water utilities face minimal nationalization risk because nationalization is costly and political.
“there's been minimal to no risk of any type of nationalisation just because of the cost and because it's really all about politics.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 32:19
Active infrastructure management adds significant value versus passive indices.
“that tells you you're adding significant value.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 34:23
Direct-asset investment vehicles rarely provide access to the world's best infrastructure assets.
“Very rarely are they the best assets in the world. That's my opinion.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 36:39
Accessible unlisted infrastructure funds tend to hold lower-quality assets than listed investments.
“most unlisted funds that people can access tend to have lower quality assets than what we invest in in the listed sense.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 37:12
The income strategy has 0.46 downside beta and 0.64 upside capture.
“our downside beta is I think 0.46 for the income strategy. So 1% fall in global markets, 0.46 fall in the strategy, and then the upside captures 0.64”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 37:39
Transurban is a global toll-road leader and APA Group is exceptional.
“Transurban is a global leader in toll road operations. APA Group, exceptional, right?”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 38:59
Utilities delivering 12% EPS growth for ten years will be rerated.
“I've never seen a utility grow its EPS at 12% for the next 10 years. If they can deliver on that, they will get a re-rate.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 40:33
Successful utilities will trade at smaller discounts to global equities.
“they won't be trading at such large discounts. Versus global equities. People will acknowledge they are more structural growth companies.”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 40:49
Utilities are the most attractive infrastructure area because they are growing quickly.
“utilities are probably number one. I mean, people think utilities are boring bond proxies, right? But they are growing so quickly”
Open the episode · The Infrastructure Behind AI, Electrification and Energy Security with Shane HurstListen at 41:22
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2 episodes featuring Shane Shurmer
Equity Mates Investing Podcast
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