(Bloomberg)—Carlyle Group Inc. is trying to increase about $2 billion for a fund that may deal with high-yield non-public debt for infrastructure initiatives, in keeping with folks acquainted with the matter, as various lenders look exterior of their conventional domains to different asset courses.

The Carlyle Infrastructure Credit score Fund II is ready to spend money on the senior and junior debt items of instantly originated financings for initiatives primarily in vitality transition alternatives. That features sectors corresponding to renewable vitality, digital infrastructure and social infrastructure, mentioned the folks, who declined to be recognized as the small print are non-public. The funds can even goal infrastructure belongings exterior of vitality transition.

World Head of Carlyle Infrastructure Credit score Erik Savi and Deputy World Head of Carlyle Infrastructure Credit score Manish Taneja are amongst these concerned within the advertising and marketing efforts, the folks mentioned.

A Carlyle consultant declined to remark.

Infrastructure initiatives have lengthy been considered one of various lenders’ most popular investments, in keeping with an Ellington Administration Group report seen by Bloomberg, which discusses alternatives in business actual property. Infrastructure initiatives, corresponding to airport constructions, utilities or roads, are typically extra cashflow-stable and fewer unstable than different asset courses.

Carlyle raised a previous model of the fund in 2020 however for only a fraction of this newest spherical: round $600 million, an individual mentioned. On this spherical, the Washington, D.C.-based agency is telling buyers the fund will goal internet returns of 9% in unlevered offers, rising to a spread of 10% to 12% for levered transactions, the folks mentioned. Carlyle is advertising and marketing its newest model of the infrastructure fund as a means to assist institutional buyers corresponding to pension funds and insurance coverage firms scale back publicity within the forthcoming anticipated recession.

Carlyle Group is a worldwide asset supervisor investing throughout credit score, actual property and personal fairness, and has been concerned in giant infrastructure initiatives such because the New Terminal One at JFK airport in New York.

–With help from Daybreak Lim.

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