APAC Real Assets Fundraising Hits US$1.1 B for Secondaries Strategy; GCC Infrastructure Sees New Energy Transition Linkages

Across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and the GCC, real estate and infrastructure investment are entering distinct but interconnected phases: a fundraising surge in APAC real assets; and energy-transition infrastructure build-out in the Gulf region.

APAC real assets: Aquilius raises US$1.1 B for secondaries strategy
In a notable fundraising milestone, Singapore-based Aquilius Investment Partners announced raising US$1.1 billion (€955 million) for its Asia-Pacific real-estate secondaries strategy. realassets.ipe.com Secondaries strategies enable investors to purchase interests in existing real-estate/private-asset funds rather than committing new capital into green-field deals — offering faster deployment, visible assets and often better risk-adjusted returns in the current environment of elevated uncertainty.

This milestone reflects increasing investor appetite for real-asset exposure in APAC despite macro headwinds. It also signals that real-estate capital markets are shifting — new-deal origination may be slowing, but secondary-market liquidity is improving.

GCC infrastructure linkages into energy/transition themes
While not a conventional “real estate” story, infrastructure investment in the GCC is gaining urgency due to energy-transition imperatives. As earlier noted, GCC states are promoting power-sector integration and renewable deployment — each of which has significant infrastructure implications (transmission lines, storage assets, renewable generation, grid upgrades). Kuwait Times

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