Barings launches Infrastructure CLO at $508m

Manager sees an inflection point for infra lending via CLOs that marks a turn away from the banks.

Barings, an investment manager subsidiary of MassMutual, has launched Barings Infrastructure CLO Ltd 2025-I at $508 million.

Though this is its first infrastructure CLO, Barings has more than 30 years of experience in infrastructure debt, as well as nearly as much experience in the CLO space.

Bo Trant, client portfolio manager of Barings’ global CLO team, told Private Debt Investor: “The infrastructure CLO market appears to be at an inflection point.