by Frédéric Blanc-Brude, Majid Hasan, Timothy Whittaker Abstract: In this paper, we describe the objectives, roadmap and recent progress of academic research with respect to benchmarking the financial performance of privately-held infrastructure debt or equity …
Long-Term Investment in Infrastructure and the Demand for Benchmarks
by Frédéric Blanc-Brude Abstract: In this paper, we argue that long-term investment in thinly traded assets like infrastructure projects increases investors’ demand for investment performance monitoring, which in turns calls for the creation of new …
Benchmarking Long-Term Investment in Infrastructure
by Frédéric Blanc-Brude Abstract: Benchmarking long-term infrastructure investments has become a sine qua non to match the supply and demand of long-term capital, improve asset allocation outcomes for investors, adapt prudential regulation and support economic …
Towards efficient benchmarks for infrastructure equity investments
by Frédéric Blanc-Brude Abstract: The paper highlights a recent research quandary with respect to infrastructure equity investment which has also been a source of interrogation for final investors: while the economics of underlying infrastructure investment …
Pension fund investment in social infrastructure: insights from the 2012 reform of the Private Finance Initiative
by Frédéric Blanc-Brude Abstract: In February 2012, EDHEC-Risk Institute responded to the UK Treasury’s Call for Evidence about the reform of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) with a particular reference to the opportunity for pension …