The EQT Active Core Infrastructure fund, managed by EQT, has held its final close with $3.2 billion of commitments, including $300 million of fee-generating co-investments.
The fund was backed by a diversified global investor base consisting of blue-chip clients, including pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, family offices and private wealth platforms.
EQT Active Core Infrastructure is a longer-hold strategy with a focus on downside protection, and applies EQT’s active ownership approach and value-creation playbook to core infrastructure companies in Europe and North America. It invests in companies that provide essential services to society and aims to offer an attractive risk-return proposition based on stable cash-yield generation, inflation protection, low volatility, and a long-term value creation opportunity.
The fund has already made three highly thematic investments that align with the strategy’s investment criteria and core f