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The NY-based firm has hired Brookfield Infrastructure’s European head, Jonathan Kelly, to source opportunities in the region for its open-ended BIP fund.

The latest round of fundraising for the Super Core series follows on from the close of Series 1 on €2.5bn in June 2018.

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.