A strong statement of institutional investor appetite in global Infrastructure with yet another mammoth fundraise by Blackstone for their first open-ended infrastructure. This is backed up by other significant fundraising efforts by Global Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield who are both set to close $20 billion Infrastructure funds later this year.
In total, $34bn of capital has been raised in the first half of 2019 by the 10 largest private infrastructure funds. Such statistics project that 2019 will surpass all previous full year fundraising efforts at a record $100bn by year end!