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Digital infra has certainly moved into the mainstream. But with technology advancing at lightning speed, a growing number of investors are quickly recognising its wider potential.

Segmentation within the infrastructure asset class didn’t emerge in 2019 but it did take on new forms, one being specialist funds.

Brookfield Asset Management will hold its stake in its fourth infrastructure fund while Infratil will undertake an equity raising to help finance its investment.

Acquisition of 11 data centres follows the Spanish firm’s recent launch of a renewables platform and marks the third investment through its debut fund.

The Brisbane-based fund manager has made an offer that values Superloop at approx. A$493m as it continues to make investments through its Global Infrastructure Fund.

French energy management company Schneider Electric has agreed to a partnership with The Carlyle Group to provide sustainability and automation upgrades to infrastructure projects. Andrew Marino, co-head of the US private equity firm’s Global Infrastructure Opportunity Fund, said the move was both an efficiency effort and a means of ensuring that current and future investments […]

The two firms say they ‘will be blazing some trails’, with the sub-sector set to become a ‘bigger part of the infrastructure market’.

The US fund manager has offloaded its majority stake in Hudson Fiber Network from its inaugural infrastructure fund.

Steven Sonnenstein, who resigned from the Canadian pension in March, becomes managing director as the firm’s inaugural $3bn fund nears target.