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Zak Bentley

Zak Bentley is an Americas Editor at Infrastructure Investor based in New York. Zak joined Infrastructure Investor in 2016 from Centaur where he was a reporter at their Clean Energy Pipeline title. He has a detailed knowledge and experience of the financial and regulatory aspects of the global infrastructure asset class. Zak has a degree in English and History from the University of Birmingham.
Time on the road can result in a fundโ€™s pitch being significantly altered by the facts on the ground when fundraising concludes.
A new platform launched by Scientific Infra & Private Assets assesses just how much infra funds are outperforming the markets they operate in.
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Exceeding its $17 billion target, the Brookfield Global Transition Fund II received substantial $1.5 billion commitment from NBIM last month.
Gary Hutch, CIO at the Canadian pension manager, believes the market tightening happened just as 'conversations were getting a little less comfortable' with GPs returning to market.
Scarce power and land availability is giving data centre investors the upper hand when it comes to contract negotiations and making the sector more infra-like than ever before.
The fund is 30% committed at closing to four deals across North America and Europe.
KKR wants to 're-evaluate the entire ecosystem from molecule to the rack and beyond', head of digital infra Waldemar Szlezak tells us.
Strategic Partners Infrastructure IV exceeded its $4bn target, as well as the $3.75bn raised by its predecessor.
Pearce will lead investor relations and fundraising world-wide for Igneo, a 'blindly obvious' hire, according to global head Niall Mills.
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