In that light, one of my favorite infrastructure stocks is a company called Brookfield Infrastructure ( BIP ) . The theme here seems clear: Investors who have a place for these types ofstocks in their portfolio are able to not onlyprofit from a rapidly-growing sector, but have a layer of insulation fromstock market volatility, economic downturns andinflation . Its transport and energy platform is geographically diverse, consisting of pipelines in the United States; ports in the U.K., Europe and China; a rail network and energy-distribution operation in Australia; and a toll road in Chile.