Macquarie Infrastructure Debt Investment Solutions (MIDIS) has completed a final close for its global infrastructure debt fund with $645 million in investor commitments.
All of the commitments were raised from new investors, which included pension funds and insurance companies from the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Portugal.
Macquarie said the Macquarie Global Infrastructure Debt Fund is helping to finance essential infrastructure around the world with debt investments in 18 infrastructure businesses. The fund has already made investments in the United Kingdom, Europe, United States and Australia.
“As familiarity with the defensive characteristics of the asset class grows, we are seeing more institutional investors recognize the important role that infrastructure debt can play as part of their broader investment portfolio,” said Tim Humphrey, co-head of MIDIS.
Launched in 2016, the pooled fund invests alongside MIDIS’ othe
