Cashed-up Infratil not short of investment options

Cashed-up Infratil not short of investment options
Digital infrastructure has been a tidy investment for Infratil. (Image: Getty)
Paul McBeth
A cashed-up Infratil isn’t struggling to find places to deploy its $1.5 billion war chest, with plenty of options within its existing portfolio and increasingly attractive opportunities elsewhere. The infrastructure investor has significant cash reserves since telco subsidiary One New Zealand sold its towers into a new business, adding to Infratil's undrawn banking lines to take advantage of various investment options in the year ahead. Infratil’s total investments in the March 2023 year were $1.36b, down from the $1.4...

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