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Isabel O'Brien
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Editor, Value Add
New York, United States
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Biography
Isabel is a New York-based freelance journalist. She currently serves as the editor of Value Add, a leading research journal focused on the operational side of private equity portcos. She also contributes to outlets such as The Guardian, France Today, and more. Prior to freelancing, she served as a reporter at PEI Group, covering the Americas beat for Infrastructure Investor, a leading trade publication for the private infrastructure market. Her work also regularly appeared in sister publications such as New Private Markets and Secondaries Investor. Her work has won numerous awards, notably the Aviva Investors Sustainability Media "Real Assets Publication of the Year" for 2022 and 2023, as well as "Best Script by a Female Screenwriter" for the 2022 New York Script Awards and the semifinalist distinction for the 2024-25 Athena Film Festival Writers Lab. She is also the co-founder of the Association of Women in Business Journalism. She is a 2021 graduate from the Dual BA Program between Columbia University and Sciences Po Paris. She studied economics, politics and creative writing (fiction).
Energy , Climate , Business
stock exchange, hollywood
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By Isabel O'Brien Verified| Mergers & Acquisitions Verified Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) launched the fourth vintage of its flagship infrastructure fund series, North Haven Infrastructure Partners IV, in 2022. By March 2023, the fund had raised $4 billion. It stayed in the market for another two years, stagnant. Here’s what happened. In March, the fund closed at just $4.1 billion — nearly $2 billion shy of its $6 billion target and lower than its third vintage, which closed at $5.5 billion in 2019, just six months after its first close.
By Isabel O'Brien Verified| The Guardian Verified TikTok’s annual carbon footprint is probably larger than that of Greece, according to a new analysis of the social media platform’s environmental impact, with the average user generating greenhouse gases equivalent to driving an extra 123 miles in a gasoline-powered car each year.
By Isabel O'Brien Verified| Mergers & Acquisitions Verified Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) launched the fourth vintage of its flagship infrastructure fund series, North Haven Infrastructure Partners IV, in 2022. By March 2023, the fund had raised $4 billion. It stayed in the market for another two years, stagnant. Here’s what happened. In March, the fund closed at just $4.1 billion — nearly $2 billion shy of its $6 billion target and lower than its third vintage, which closed at $5.5 billion in 2019, just six months after its first close.
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Value Add