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Zak Bentley

Zak Bentley is a senior reporter at Infrastructure Investor based in London. 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 renewable energy market, as well as the wider infrastructure market. Zak has a degree in English and History from the University of Birmingham.
The country’s desire ‘to send a positive signal’ to renewable investors would be far more effective if it stopped trying to battle compensation awards from its past
The private equity and infrastructure manager has already held discussions with ‘investors from all walks of life’, partner George Ridd tells us.
The investment in a fibre network on the French island of Réunion is the first by the team formed in April last year by the former EDF Invest infrastructure arm.
Infrastructure has overtaken private debt and alongside real estate now makes up a majority of bfinance’s private market manager searches.
The new vehicle this week added Vantage Airport Group and plans to focus its strategy on airport and airport-related investments.
The move could see the group raise up €1bn for its equity vehicle, in a diversification from its managed account investment strategy.
The fund is targeting a net return of 10%, with the firm’s two previous funds both generating IRRs of about 13%.
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