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Last updated: July 15, 2026, 8:30 PM ET

Infrastructure Fundraising Challenges and Strategic Investments

Infrastructure fundraising faced headwinds in the first half of 2026, with $40.8bn raised, marking a new record low and significantly below the $71.6bn secured in the first half of 2024. Despite this challenging fundraising environment, Primevest is eyeing the launch of a €1bn European mobility fund focused on investments like EV charging facilities. Concurrently, CalSTRS Nuveen a $2bn strategic partnership for a debt fund and adjacent opportunities, with funds earmarked for sustainable energy initiatives. DTCP has hit a €1 billion first close for its latest European digital infrastructure fund, having raised two-thirds of its target. In other infrastructure news public appetite with a $1.35bn IPO for its data center assets, offering a potential public exit from the boom. Squared opening a Tokyo office, while Rivage has reached €900 million for its debt fund and EQT has inked a $2.6 billion deal for power and data centers. Campbell Lutyens, as Lazard and Campbell Lutyens prepare to merge, named Moore and Marroquin as global co-heads of infra.

Real Estate Sector Shifts and Investor Strategies

shying away from the US market, committing $3.3bn to US real estate since the start of 2025 in pursuit of higher returns. This strategic allocation comes as data suggests that 2019-23 vintage funds of their capital, with 2016-18 vintages being the last to fully return capital. PIMCO's Trausch highlighted real estate's "fight for relevance" in the age of AI, emphasizing the importance of an asset's capacity to host "the tenants of the future." In personnel news has departed after two years, having been tasked with a significant restructuring of the pension plan's property portfolio.

Healthcare and Life Sciences Private Equity Activity

In the healthcare and life sciences sector an investment in West Physics, a company founded in 2002. Separately, Associates made a growth investment in AIRS Medical to accelerate its global expansion.