PATRIZIA has launched its first European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF) strategy aimed at private and professional investors in infrastructure, where demand is surging to finance the enormous costs of digitalization, urban mobility, the energy transition and social infrastructure.
The European Union loosened regulations around ELTIFs in 2024 (ELTIF 2.0) to lower barriers to entry and costs for retail investors, and this has already attracted billions of euros into the vehicles, with infrastructure proving to be the most popular investment asset class.
The PATRIZIA Infrastructure Invest Fund is being offered by the firm’s Wealth Solutions unit and has been developed in partnership with Universal Investment, one of Europe’s largest fund service platforms. The vehicle is structured as an evergreen-term Luxembourg SICAV-SCA and Article 8 fund under the European Union’s SFDR classification.
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