EQT CEO Plans to Invest $250 Billion in US Over Next Five Years

Per Franzen, the chief executive officer of Swedish private equity group EQT AB, says the firm is planning to make significant investments in the US across its three main business lines, private capital, infrastructure and real estate.

“Over the next five years we actually expect to invest more than $250 billion here in the US, which would be an increase compared to how much we’ve invested in this part of the world historically,” Franzen said in an interview on Bloomberg TV.

Franzen, whose Stockholm-based firm is ranked as the world’s second-biggest private equity group based on capital raised, ...