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The vehicle’s £1.25bn target is the same figure as the hard-cap of its predecessor fund, which closed in November 2017.

The Infrastructure Debt 15 is the second edition of our ranking of the world's largest credit GPs, which have raised $84bn from third-party LPs.

The Swiss fund manager has already deployed roughly €93m through SEEF II, a fund that could be double the size of its predecessor should it reach its €400m hard-cap.

The fund has already made three investments, including its first bioenergy deals since hiring a team from Foresight Group last year.

Head of private markets Stephen O’Neill wants 'to see innovation' and solutions that are tailored to a defined-contribution scheme.

The fund is about 75% invested after an acquisition from KKR this week, but the firm is now working to ‘ensure sufficient capital is available' to keep investing.

The local government rejected plans by Britain’s ninth busiest airport to grow its passenger limit from 10 million to 12 million on environmental grounds.

The increase in the number and size of debt funds augers well for an asset class expected to grow on the back of compressed equity returns and persistently low interest rates.

More than a third of limited partners in infrastructure funds expect to increase their exposure to the asset class over the next 12 months.

The firm’s fourth flagship vehicle exceeded its $17bn target and is already 40% deployed, with $3.6bn invested in digital infrastructure.