About Us

Scientific Infra & Private Assets Ltd emanated from the research developed at the EDHEC Business School and has been an index and data provider since 2019, serving numerous prestigious clients representing hundreds of billions of dollars of private equity and infrastructure assets under management.

We offer a solution to the main data challenge investors face in private markets: an endemic lack of risk and performance data restricting best practices and obfuscating investment decisions.

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Who we are?

WE ARE DIFFERENT

We are not a repository of contributed information provided by a limited sample of market participants. Instead, we collect data directly from private firms and markets and use advanced financial modelling, statistics and machine learning to produce scientific results fit to make investment decisions. We do so transparently, using models that are fully documented.

WE ARE QUANT

At the crossroad of academia and industry, we are a quantitative team with a focus on private asset pricing and market dynamics. We create model-driven products and solutions with practical applications for investors in need of better data so they can decide how to deploy capital in private equity and infrastructure markets while managing risk and benchmarking performance.

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Our Value Proposition

Private markets provide investors with information through transaction prices that are always noisy and biased. Using advanced, scientific models and the best data available, quantitative research can de-noise and correct biases in the data to provide investors with access to robust and representative market information.

With our technology and unique access to private market information, we produce data that serves as a starting point in private investing.

1. Asset Valuation: we offer robust, representative and customisable data to anchor private asset valuations to market conditions.

2. Market Dynamics: we offer a suite of private market indices and customisable benchmarks to track market levels and risk.

Our Clients

Trusted by sophisticated investors around the world since 2019

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Client AUM

Asset Managers

Fund managers use our data to launch new products, for deal due diligence, performance benchmarking and valuation.

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Client Private Equity AUM

Asset Owners

Pension funds and insurers use our data to manage risk and allocations, select managers and review valuations.

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Client Infrastructure AUM

Consultants

Consultants and OCIOs use our data to document strategies, select managers and track private market trends.

Milestones

2016

Creation of the Infrastructure Research Institute at EDHEC and launch of the private infrastructure asset pricing research program.
2019

Creation of the Scientific Infra Ltd and launch of infraMetrics®
2022

Scientific Infra Ltd is recognised by ESMA as an index provider.
Launch of the private equity asset pricing research program.
2023

The company is renamed Scientific Infra & Private Assets Ltd
2024

Launch of privateMetrics®

Meet the four founders

A unique combination of skills, passion and endeavour.

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Frederic Blanc-Brude
CEO (Scientific Infra and Private Assets Ltd)  Director (EDHEC Infra and Private Assets Research Institute)
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Tim Whittaker
  Research Director - Head of Data
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Fabrice Lee Choon
Head of Production  Associate Director
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Abhishek Gupta
  Associate Director - Solutions

The R&D Team

Academic Rigor in Applied Research

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Jianyong Shen
Head of AI  Senior Research Engineer
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Nishtha Manocha
ESG Research  Senior Research Engineer
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Darwin Marcelo
Green Infrastructure Team  Project Director
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Fabien Nugier
  Senior Research Engineer
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Jeanette Orminski
  Senior Sustainability & ESG Researcher
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Bertrand Jayles
  Senior Sustainability Data Scientist

Our Locations

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EDHEC Europe

10 Fleet Place
London EC4M 7RB
United Kingdom
+44 (0)207 332 5600

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Singapore Office

One George Street
#15-02
Singapore 049145
+65 66538575