Kalliope Gourntis
There’s plenty to celebrate in H1 fundraising that points to a recovery at last. But we’d still warn against complacency.
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The RE manager has already secured a $60m anchor investment from the IFC for a strategy that will invest in a range of infra subsectors, primarily in developing Asia.
‘We could have accepted more capital,’ Emaad Sami tells Infrastructure Investor, but with an additional €400m raised for co-investment and side vehicles Schroders decided on a final close.
In this challenging fundraising environment, investors are placing more emphasis on ‘the ability to create value and also realise value’, EQT’s head of infrastructure Masoud Homayoun tells us.
The UK pension plans to deploy around £5bn by 2030, investing in infrastructure, debt and private equity, through IFM.
Infrastructure GPs should take comfort from the findings of our latest Investor Report that show average allocations rising and LPs intending to continue investing in the asset class.