Ares Management raises $5 billion for infrastructure debt investing
Reuters
Published Jan 11, 2023 05:47AM ET
Updated Jan 11, 2023 10:52AM ET
By Chibuike Oguh
(Reuters) -Ares Management Corp said on Wednesday it raised about $5 billion for an infrastructure debt fund that invests in the debt of infrastructure assets such as data centers, telecommunication towers, ports and utilities.
The new fund is the first infrastructure debt fund that Ares has raised following its acquisition of the infrastructure debt business of Sydney, Australia-based investment firm AMP (OTC:AMLTF) Capital in February last year. AMP had previously raised four such funds.
The new fund is called Ares Infrastructure Debt Fund V and will acquire subordinated loans or bonds of infrastructure assets, particularly in the digital, transportation and renewable energy sectors across North America, Europe and Asia, Patrick Trears, Ares' global head of infrastructure debt, told Reuters.
"Investors look at infrastructure as a flight to quality when they're looking at making investments because of the consistent, steady nature of the cash and returns and this is a low volatility asset as well where you would not expect to be seeing big swings," Trears said.
Infrastructure funds raised $95.4 billion in the first nine months of last year, which is greater than the amount raised over the same period in each of the last 10 years with the exception of 2021, according to data provider Pitchbook.
The new Ares fund raised more than each of AMP's prior four funds, which cumulatively collected more than $7.5 billion from investors.
The debt fund has already invested about $2 billion of its capital. It provided $1 billion in so-called sustainability-linked debt facilities to Virginia-based data center provider EdgeConneX to refinance its existing debt, expand its operations and help the company hit its environmental and social governance targets.
Los Angeles-based Ares was founded in 1997 and has more than $340 billion in assets under management across credit, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and secondary fund investments.
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