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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.
The deal, which will also see Singapore’s GIC as a JV partner, comes just a few weeks after the Canadian pension aided the Blackstone-led deal for AirTrunk.
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The renewables landscape is awash with large development pipelines promising enormous amounts of power. We explore whether they can deliver.
Recent fortunes for core funds, along with a shift in interest rates, may be signalling a slow turn of the tide.
Sweden
Despite missing the €5bn target, EQT’s head of Active Core Infrastructure Alex Greenbaum tells us its ‘among the best amount of capital’ raised during the timeframe.
Peter Martin Larsen
Peter Martin Larsen, formerly of PensionDanmark, is now leading the buildout of Ontario’s University Pension Plan, with a heavy focus on co-investment and inflation protection.
US dollars
The final closing for Global Infrastructure Partners V is anticipated for Q1 2025, as completion of its acquisition by BlackRock nears.
Plughole
A new regulatory period looms but attracting much needed capital when ‘investors can earn a higher return with much less risk’ elsewhere will be an uphill struggle.
About $1.6bn has been committed to opportunity set in the US power space that ‘has never been broader’, COO Darpan Kapadia told us.
Several fibre investments have struggled recently, but the AI boom could provide an uplift for the once known ‘fourth utility’.
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