{"id":75752,"date":"2026-09-07T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/75752\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:40:06","slug":"bnp-paribas-am-alts-closes-junior-infra-debt-fund-at-e1-2bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/75752\/","title":{"rendered":"BNP Paribas AM Alts closes junior infra debt fund at \u20ac1.2bn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts (BNPP AM Alts) has raised \u20ac1.2bn (\u00a31.03bn) for its second European junior infrastructure debt fund at final close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The European Junior Infra Debt Fund II secured commitments from a mix of European and Asian investors, including both existing and new backers, the manager said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The fund, classified as an Article 8 fund under SFDR regulations, gives investors exposure to investments spanning renewable energy, utilities, digital infrastructure, clean mobility and social infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/alternativecreditinvestor.com\/2026\/09\/07\/claret-inks-e575m-for-european-growth-debt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Claret inks \u20ac575m for European growth debt<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Since launching in August 2024, the fund has completed close to 10 investments, predominantly in the energy transition, green mobility and digital infrastructure sectors. This includes solar project platforms, pan-European rail and data centres, with a focus on western Europe, according to BNPP AM Alts.<\/p>\n<p>As an Article 8 fund, environmental, social and governance criteria is integrated into its investment approach, BNPP AM Alts added.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alternativecreditinvestor.com\/2026\/09\/04\/aegon-launches-trio-of-funds-targeting-european-clos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Aegon launches trio of funds targeting European CLOs<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cThe success of the fund raise demonstrates the strong underlying demand from institutional investors for specialised infrastructure debt strategies aiming to offer a strong cash yield, attractive illiquidity premiums, compared to corporate bonds, and exposure to Europe\u2019s energy transition and digital infrastructure boom,\u201d BNPP AM Alts said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">\u201cThe asset class is benefitting from significant structural tailwinds including the regulatory and commercial transition towards electrification, digitisation and decarbonisation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, BNPP AM Alts\u2019 infrastructure debt platform manages \u20ac15bn and has deployed \u20ac24bn across both junior and senior infrastructure debt strategies, according to the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<a href=\"https:\/\/alternativecreditinvestor.com\/2026\/09\/03\/lbp-am-european-private-markets-expands-team-with-two-hires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u00a0LBP AM European Private Markets expands team with two hires\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts (BNPP AM Alts) has raised \u20ac1.2bn (\u00a31.03bn) for its second European junior infrastructure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12875],"tags":[12883,45258],"class_list":["post-75752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bnp-paribas","tag-bnp-paribas","tag-bnp-paribas-asset-management-alts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}