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Ardian has remained loyal to its infrastructure strategy since inception. That has resulted in a consistently strong track record and an approach that continues to stand the test of time, Mathias Burghardt, Marion Calcine and Juan Angoitia tell Infrastructure Investor.

The manager has already raised more than two-thirds of its equity fund's minimum target, with a year remaining until its final close.

The manager is also understood to be targeting a $500m second close for its infra transition debt fund in Q1 2026.

With momentum waning, questions are turning to what is required to make infrastructure investments more attractive.

Organisational changes at the New Zealand Superannuation Fund seek to set it up for future growth alongside global co-investors like Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.

Macquarie Infrastructure Partners VII follows only three months after its predecessor’s final close on $6.8bn in June.

Stonepeak is looking to other investors to raise around $1bn for the strategy, although a formal fundraise is not planned, Infrastructure Investor understands.

While the capital for DigitalBridge Partners III comes in below its initial $8bn target, the firm also raised $4.5bn in co-investment capital.

Partnering with both Nvidia and the Kuwait Investment Authority as founding partners, the new global AI infrastructure programme is seeking $100bn of assets.

Experts are calling for a surge in investment and for authorities to ditch their view of the grid as a cost to be minimised.