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Top1000funds: Thames Water – A lesson in infrastructure valuations
In this article, Noël Amenc, Associate Professor at EDHEC Business School, discusses the financial difficulties faced by Thames Water, a…
Responsible Investor: ESG Investor “EOPIA Warned on Climate Risks to Infrastructure Investment”
Fiona McNally highlights the issues addressed by EDHEC’s Infrastructure and Private Assets Research Institute in the Open Letter to European…
Bloomberg: Funds Hoarding Alternative Assets Face ‘Very High’ ESG Risk
Portfolios risk seeing 50% NAV loss in worst-case scenario. EIOPA has already taken some steps to address climate risk. Frances…
The Times: Thames Water hit by writedown from biggest shareholder
Thames Water’s biggest shareholder has cut the valuation of its stake by almost 30 per cent, raising fresh questions over…
The Guardian: Thames Water’s biggest investor has cut value of stake by nearly 30%
Debt-laden company has faced questions over financial stability and ability to raise funds. The biggest investor in Thames Water has…
Financial Times: Thames Water’s biggest investor cut value of its stake by 28%, July 2023.
Thames Water’s biggest investor slashed the value of its stake last year, raising questions about how easy it will be…
IPE Real Assets: Guest view: Why infrastructure needs climate benchmarks
Christopher Walker and Darwin Marcelo discuss the necessity of climate benchmarks among infrastructure investors. Darwin Marcelo, project director for the…
Asia Asset Management: Singapore firm wins Japan’s GPIF mandate to assess private infrastructure portfolio
Singapore research firm EDHEC Infrastructure and Private Assets (EDHECinfra) has won a mandate from Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)…
IJ Global: Japan’s GPIF, EDHECinfra ink commercial agreement
Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) has appointed EDHEC Infrastructure and Private Assets (EDHECinfra) to evaluate the fair value of…
IPE Real Assets: Japan’s GPIF hires EDHECinfra to assess fair value of infrastructure portfolio
In this article, Razak Musah Baba highlights the recent commercial agreement between Japan’s ¥191trn (€1.22trn) Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)…
L’AGEFI: Le GPIF confie un mandat d’analyse des investissements non-cotés à un consultant français
Le fonds de pension du secteur public japonais veut pouvoir estimer en juste valeur ses investissements en actions d’infrastructures non…
Infrastructure Investor: Japan’s GPIF to make direct LP commitments in infra for first time
GPIF head of infra Kikuko Emae said ‘larger funds with stable track records’ would be the main area of focus…
Infrastructure Investor: Japan’s GPIF to make direct LP commitments in infra for first time
GPIF head of infra Kikuko Emae said ‘larger funds with stable track records’ would be the main area of focus…
Tenacemente: Investire green conviene?
” Secondo una recente indagine condotta in Francia dall’istituto economico EDHECinfra, investire soldi in energia rinnovabile è diventato uno degli…
Institutional Investor: U.K. LDI Guidance Ignores Private Assets, Academics Say
Researchers at EDHEC say the United Kingdom was too hasty in issuing guidelines. The U.K. Pensions Regulator may have acted…
Net Zero Investor: Challenges to net-zero infrastructure investing
Darwin Marcelo from EDHECinfra discusses how to overcome issues involving data and metrics to reach net-zero emissions in infrastructure investments.…
The Conversation: The rise of renewables is not without risk for investors
While renewables are enjoying record profits, the risks faced by investors are also increasing! The authors of the article in The…
IPE Real Assets: Guest view – The denominatrix
In this article, Noël Amenc, Associate Professor, EDHEC Business School & Director, Scientific Infra, and Frédéric Blanc-Brude, Director, EDHEC Infrastructure…
The Actuary: Asset assessment of airports missing key data
In recent coverage of EDHECInfra’s airport report, reporters of The Actuary said that infrastructure investors are increasingly concerned that carbon…
Infrastructure Investor: Developing a taste for non-vanilla renewables
Kalliope Gourntis analyses the trends in renewables investment and highlights that renewables have matured and gone mainstream. “Investors are going…
IPE Real Assets: UK introduces new windfall tax and plans to legislate Solvency II reforms
Richard Lowe reviews the windfarm industry in the UK and the impacts new tax plans could have to legislate Solvency…
IPE Real Assets: Renewables to become riskier investment unless storage keeps pace – EDHEC
Lauren Mills reflects on EDHECinfra’s latest report where the authors, Laurence Monnier (Director of 1PlanetInfra, Advisory Board member of EDHECinfra)…
Point Banque: TRIBUNE – Une (sur)performance amenée à durer pour les investissements verts?
L’été que nous venons de passer est la confirmation que les effets du réchauffement climatique sont plus forts et plus…
The Conversation: Investissements verts : une (sur) performance amenée à durer ?
L’été que nous venons de passer est la confirmation que les effets du réchauffement climatique sont plus forts et plus…
Le Journal du Dimanche: Pourquoi les investisseurs s’enthousiasment pour les énergies renouvelables depuis dix ans
Noël Amenc, professeur de finance et Frédéric Blanc-Brude, directeur de l’EDHEC Infrastructure Institute, reviennent sur l’engouement des investisseurs pour les projets…
Corporate Advisor: Question time for net zero
John Lappin investigates if the net zero consensus is under threat. He referred to the Open Letter to Stuart Kirk,…
Australian Financial Review: Solar and wind are losing their green premium
Tony Boyd reveals the findings from the EDHECinfra’s research paper “The pricing of green infrastructure”. He outlines that excess demand…
News Manager: Edhecinfra prend position contre le gaz dans la taxonomie verte
Edhecinfra, le fournisseur des données et d’indices affilié à l’école Edhec Business School, vient d’annoncer son soutien à une action…
Financial Investigator: EDHECinfra expresses strong support to four environmental groups who launched legal action against the inclusion of gas in the EU taxonomy
Financial Investigator describes the facts provided by Noël Amenc, associate professor at EDHEC Business School, director at Scientific Infra and…
Benefits and Pensions Monitor: EDHECinfra Joins Legal Action Over Gas Inclusion
Journalists from Benefits and PEnsions Monitor updated the readers about the efforts that EDHECinfra is doing to support four environmental…
Corporate Adviser: CA Summit 2022: Returns on green infrastructure set to fall
Read the full story here.…
SDG Action: Wanted: data on pricing climate risks
by Frederic Blanc-Brude, Director, EDHECinfra & CEO, Scientific Infra Private markets function on data – but the data to accurately…
Financial Review: IFM Investors’ war on Atlas Arteria gets personal
Jenny Wiggins had a closer look at Atlas Arteria story. “IFM Investors is raising questions over the capability of Atlas…
Australian Financial Review: Atlas Arteria’s highway to the Chicago Skyway
Jenny Wiggins has been analysing Atlas Arteria’s recent acquisition of Skyway highlighting the opinions of various analysts and CEOs. According…
IPE: EDHEC – Investors now paying ‘green premium’ for renewables
Richard Lowe, IPE’s editor, had a closer look at the pricing of green infrastructure and whether investors are willing to…
Mondovisione: EDHEC Infrastructure – Green Infra: Past Performance Is Not Necessarily Indicative Of Future Results
The expected returns of green power investments are now much lower than they used to be. As a result, realised…
Infrastructure Investor: CBRE Investment Management: The road ahead for transportation infrastructure
Tania Tsoneva looks back at COVID’s impact on the transport sector and ahead at the trends and market forces that…
IPE: Investor groups warn UK against including gas in green taxonomy
Susanna Rust has quoted some of the major UK investors who have published an open letter to the UK prime…
Bloomberg: Suspended HSBC Banker Draws Ire From Academics Over Climate Rant
After drawing both cheers and rebukes from within the finance industry, HSBC Asset Management’s suspended head of responsible investing has…
ESG Investor: Asset Owners and Managers to Target Renewable and Social Infrastructure
Report identifies prevalence of renewable energy in portfolios, but strong future interest in data-related projects. Asset managers and owners plan…
IPE: North American pension funds outperform infrastructure market in 2021
Asset owners, such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds, achieved the strongest risk-adjusted returns among a broader universe of…
IPE: Natural gas doesn’t need EU green taxonomy inclusion – EDHECinfra
Suzanna Rust highlights the finding and facts from the new research note from the EDHECinfra, “The Cost of Capital of…
Bloomberg: Gas Companies Eye Green Debt After EU Rulebook Inclusion
John Ainger and Greg Ritchie provide some alternative views and feedback from the industry on the EU Commission decision to…
IPE Real Assets: Toll roads. Stay in lane
Toll roads have recovered after the initial effects of COVID-19. Florence Chong reports on a surprisingly resilient sector. Read the…
IPE Real Assets: Airports. In for the long haul
They have been hit the hardest, but does a multi-billion-dollar takeover mark the start of a recovery for airports? Florence…
IPE Real Assets: No more quartile lottery!
Frédéric Blanc-Brude, director and CEO, and Abhishek Gupta, Associate Director and Head of Product Development at EDHECinfra, speak about the…
Infrastructure Investor: Robust benchmarks needed for infra investors
Frédéric Blanc-Brude, director and CEO, and Abhishek Gupta, Associate Director and Head of Product Development at EDHECinfra provided their expert…
AFR: Data opens up infrastructure options
Christopher Niesche spoke with Abhishek Gupta, Head of Product Development at EDHECinfra, about infrastructure as a new asset class and…
P&I: Sydney Airport smiles on third bid from investor consortium
Douglas Appell analyses the situation with Sydney airport that considers the third offer from a consortium of infrastructure investors and…
P&I: Bid process for Sydney Airport puts pandemic’s impact in the limelight
Sydney Airport, the target of a consortium of infrastructure managers and superannuation funds, is playing hard to get over pandemic…
Investment Magazine: Reframing infrastructure in the new portfolio context
The difficulty large asset owners face in balancing sometimes conflicting messages around infrastructure were discussed at length in an online…
AFR: Building transparency into infrastructure investment
As more super funds put money into infrastructure and as the government puts super returns under scrutiny, focus is turning…
Investment Magazine: New infrastructure valuation tools address the risks of inequitable switching
Ben Hurley takes a closer look at the question of infrastructure valuation. He examines challenges the industry faces in the…
DWS: Private infrastructure equity strategic outlook update H2 2021
DWS uses EDHECinfa data in their Alternative Research on Infrastructure, including index performance, revenue growth and total return rates, and…
The Business Time: ‘Common language’ and risk data critical to mobilise private capital, close sustainable infrastructure financing gap: Indranee
Kelly Ng takes the view on the lack of a common language on green finance and incomplete data on climate…
Inframation: News analysis: The ‘Next Big Test’ arrives for infrastructure – Inflation
Colin Leopold explains what could inflation and interest rate change mean for the infrastructure asset class. He thinks that the…
Infrastructure Investor: Peak infra has peaked
A recently released EDHECinfra and LTIIA (Long Term Infrastructure Investors’ Association) research paper entitled “The Volatility of Unlisted Infrastructure Investments”…
Infrastructure Investor: Australia to introduce unlisted superfundbenchmarks for infra
Daniel Kemp takes a long view at the benchmarks for unlisted infrastructure in light of the Your Future, Your Super…
AFR: Backlash against new super performance index
Tony Boyd examines the relevance of the proposed unlisted infrastructure benchmark in light of the Australian federal government’s superannuation reforms. “EDHEC…
IPE Real Assets: What the return of inflation means for real assets
Jennifer Bollen enquiries about the return of inflation and discusses with Frederic Blanc-Brude what it could mean for real assets.…
ESG Investor: Plans to Unleash Sustainable Infrastructure Flows Accelerate
Elena Johansson discovers the trends and initiatives around Sustainable Infrastructure investment, perspectives and barriers the asset class faces and the…
Investment Magazine: Reinventing infrastructure: Data improvement is reframing the asset class
Ben Hurley highlights the importance of fair value in infrastructure investments with a focus on the situation in Australian superannuation…
Infrastructure Investor: II Global Passport: Infra ‘can do better now’ on valuations
Zak Bentley highlights the main points and views discussed during the Valuation Deep Dive event organized by Infrastructure Investor. “Speaking…
IPE Real Assets: Do you know the fair value of your infrastructure investments?
Thought Leadership article in the new issue of IPE Real Assets, by Frederic Blanc-Brude. “New asset valuation technology and data…
IPE Real Assets: Infrastructure ESG reporting schemes not capturing financial risks, EDHEC warns
Richard Lowe highlights the findings of EDHECifra’s paper “Towards a Scientific Approach to ESG for Infrastructure Investors”. “The EU’s Sustainable…
top1000funds: The importance of the right benchmark
A new paper by EDHECInfra argues that selecting the right benchmark could completely change investors’ preferred asset allocation to infrastructure…
IP&E Real Assets: Regulation – What SFDR means for infrastructure funds
Infrastructure funds that market themselves as sustainable to EU investors will come under new rules from March, René Lavanchy reports.…
IP&E Real Assets: Should infrastructure investors write-down their airport investments?
“Investors should recognise that the risk premia used to discount the future cash flows has increased for the troubled sector,…
Inframation. In-depth: New Rules May Turn Super Funds Off Infrastructure
Kate Burges investigates whether Australia’s super funds are going to abandon low-risk strategies, including infrastructure investing, to boost their returns…
IP&E: Why the largest infrastructure investors and managers outperform
Richard Rowe highlights EDHECinfra’s findings from the case study “Unlisted Infrastructure Performance Contribution, Attribution & Benchmarking”. “The world’s largest infrastructure…
PDI: Asian investors switch on to infra
Infrastructure debt continues to gain interest from long-term investors, particularly those in South Korea and Japan, reports Adalla Kim. Using…
AVCJ: Coronavirus & infrastructure: Trial by fire
Justin Niessner takes a closer look on the impact COVID-19 has on the infrastructure investors. He states that conservative investors…
Infrastructure Investor: France has completely failed to regulate toll roads, says EDHEC
Zak Bentley highlights the findings of a publication from the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute entitled “The cost of capital in motorway…
Canadian Investment Review: Is it time for pension plans to do away with absolute return benchmarks in infrastructure?
Based on EDHECinfra paper, Canadian Investment Review outlines the main points raised in the Paper and highlights why infrastructure investors…
Infrastructure Investor: ‘No reason’ for infra investors to use absolute benchmarks, EDHECinfra says
In a new position paper entitled Infrastructure investors should abandon absolute return benchmarks, EDHECinfra argues there is no reason for…
IP&E: Top 100 Infrastructure Managers 2020: A big balancing act
Maha Khan Phillips and Christopher O’Dea discover how Top 100 Infrastructure Managers are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis and their…
IP&E: Transport infrastructure: Global value lockdown
Rene Lavanchy outlines the current state of transport infrastructure and uses EDHECinfra data to support the findings. “An index for…
CIR: What’s next for infrastructure assets after a rough Q1?
Yaelle Gang enquires about the impact of Covd-19 for infrastructure investors and looks at some data: “According to data from…
P&I: Infrastructure’s defensive role under scrutiny
Arleen Jacobius of P&I highlights the impact of Covid-19 on infrastructure assets. “Companies involved in midstream assets that transport energy,…
P&I: Infrastructure risk put to test with COVID-19
Doug Appel takes the long view on infrastructure after Covid-19 in this piece which mentions the infra300 index. “The lack…
top1000funds: Investing in infra: living dangerously?
An short piece on what covid-19 means for benchmarking infrastructure investments published in top1000funds. “What can infrastructure investors do this…
IP&E: EDHECinfra captures COVID-19 impact on private infrastructure market
“An inability to capture the true volatility of private infrastructure has always been a challenge for institutional investors when allocating…
IP&E: Infrastructure debt funds come of age
Chris O’Dea take a look at the private infrastructure debt space and used EDHECinfra spread data to make his point.…
IP&E: ESG in infrastructure – Benchmark blues
René Lavanchi reviews some of the issues and debates that keep making ESG and infrastructure investment a good research topic:…
FT: Infrastructure funds have become a way around decarbonisation targets
John Dizard explores recent trends in infrastructure investments and mentions our results when it comes to performance and risk for…
Unlisted infra assets deliver 14% gain in 2019, EDHECinfra index reveals
Zak Bentley looks at the 2019Q4 release of the EDHECinfra indices. “In previous years, interest rates have gone down so…
CIR: The challenges of benchmarking infrastructure in a pension portfolio
Benchmarking is important because it’s the only way to understand infrastructure investment on a multi-asset class basis, says Frederic Blanc-Brude,…
The Banker: Assessing sustainable infrastructure: the bigger picture
“The infrastructure sectors and their related risks is a much more challenging task, according to Frédéric Blanc-Brude, director of the…
Institutional Investing in Infrastructure: A conversation with Frederic Blanc-Brude
i3 senior editor Drew Campbell recently spoke with Frederic Blanc-Brude, director of EDHEC Infrastructure Institute, about the state of benchmarks…
Why investing in resilience is here to stay
Daniel Kemp discusses the future of sustainable investment in infrastructure and why it is though to measure and benchmark outcomes.…
Les Echos: La « smart infrastructure », clé de notre mutation économique
Pour Anne-Christine Champion (membre du Advisory Board EDHECinfra), responsable monde actifs réels chez Natixis, le secteur des infrastructures est un…
IP&E: Is infrastructure too expensive? In a word, no
Richard Lowe looks at the evidence available on the pricing of infrastructure assets. “Another interesting contention is that infrastructure was…
Portfolio Institutionell: Eine Infrastruktur aus Aktien
Tim Büttner of Portfolio Institutionell takes a look at EDHECinfra’s research on listed infrastructure: „Diese sind jedoch recht rar und…
IP&E Real Assets: Why big is often best
Christopher O’Dea explores the role of size and the lack of liquidity in infrastructure investing, drawing from EDHECinfra results.…
IP&E Real Assets: Is infrastructure on the right track?
Richard Lowe reviews the state of the market and uses insights from EDHECinfra research.…
IP&E Real Assets: As OTPP invests in SpaceX, should infra investors look beyond ‘grounded’ assets?
At the annual EDHECinfra Days Conference in London, Frédéric Blanc-Brude, director of EDHECinfra, suggested that rolling stock should be excluded…
FTfm: Infra funds can no longer play the arbitrage game
EDHECinfra’s data collection and standardisation work was mentioned in John Dizard’s column: “The real threat to margins in the infra…
IP&E Real Assets: Is rolling stock infrastructure?
How many assets does an infrastructure portfolio need to be sufficiently diversified? Most institutional investors would say between 20 and…
P&I: As infrastructure matures, fuss on style drift grows
Doug Appel discusses the evolution of the definition of infrastructure investment in the context of EDHECinfra’s broad market indices.…
P&I: Infrastructure investing ‘evolution not revolution’ for CalSTRS, official says
Infrastructure investing is “an evolution, not a revolution” for the West Sacramento-based California State Teachers’ Retirement System, said Paul Shantic, director…
Pensions & Investments: Indexes put bright light on unlisted assets
EDHEC Infrastructure Institute on June 7 launched global benchmark indexes for unlisted infrastructure equity and debt that market veterans say…
Infrastructure Investor: The big debate – Does ESG enhance performance?
Big debate Does ESG enhance performance? Partners Group’s Esther Peiner and EDHECinfra’s Frédéric Blanc-Brude tell us what they think. You…
IP&E: Chart of the Week: Alternatives investors bullish on UN SDGs
Susanna Rust reviews investors ESG focus and draws conclusions from our 2019 global infrastructure survey. …
SCMP: Rising rate risks erode global interest in emerging markets’ infrastructure
Sarah Zheng discusses some of the findings of our 2019 global survey. “Around 54 per cent of the respondents said…
Les Echos: Infrastructures – Why managers need not fear a bubble
Our recent paper on the factors that drive unlisted infrastructure equity valuations and recent market trends was highlighted in French…
FT: ESG has no financial benefit for infrastructure groups, study finds
The first ever study on ESG reporting and financial returns by Tim Whittaker and Silvia Garcia was highlighted by the…
IP&E Real Assets: Despite Brexit, infrastructure investors still believe in the UK economy
One of the striking findings of the 2019 global survey was the rank of the UK in investors’ perceptions for…
Infrastructure Investor: ‘Double-digit returns are behind us’
Infrastructure is a new asset class; numerous deals had to happen before buyers and sellers discovered a ‘fair price’.” “It…
IP&E Real Assets: Can America build bridges (and roads)?
The bigger issue standing in the way of higher US infrastructure investment is the lack of homogeneity in financing and procurement…
Infrastructure Investor: Why clearly defining infrastructure is critical
Without a proper taxonomy providing a set of criteria to define infrastructure it is hard for asset managers to structure the…
Building benchmarks for infrastructure investors
EDHECinfra has now built the largest database of infrastructure investment data in the world. The data has been used to…
Alt Assets: Better benchmarks to boost infrastructure investment in untapped markets
“EDHECinfra was created to address the knowledge gap faced by infrastructure investors. Investors need proper performance benchmarks for private infrastructure…
IPE Real Assets: Building an asset class from the ground up
EDHEC has been gathering data from asset owners to produce indices that address the specific needs of the infrastructure asset…
Financial Post: US$1 Trillion Infrastructure Investment Opportunity in 10 Compact with Africa Countries
According to the Annual Global Infrastructure Investor Survey 2017 by the Global Infrastructure Hub and EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore, 37 per cent of…
IPE Real Assets: Infrastructure managers told to ‘raise game’ or miss out on DC pensions
EDHECinfra Days conference is highlighted as a must attend event as speakers discuss the number of inadequacies with the current…
Pensions and Investments: New Zealand Super bids to build Auckland light rail network
Others, looking at asset owners shouldering the design and development of city train networks, see mostly outsized risks. “It’s the…
Globe News Wire: EDHECinfra urges Norwegian government to reconsider exclusion of unlisted infrastructure from GPFG mandate
“The unlisted infrastructure sector is evolving rapidly to become more transparent and better benchmarked, so that large institutional investors such…
Success benchmarked: Initial forays into infrastructure investment benchmarks are producing results
“Without adequate performance benchmarks infrastructure investors have found it challenging to make investments in infrastructure” “Using unique asset pricing technology,…
FTfm: US fails to rake in infrastructure cash
Jennifer Thompson asks why it is so hard to invest in US infra. “There is a definite demand for infrastructure…
The Times: The Future of Infrastructure
“Although infrastructure is illiquid, our research shows that if you can measure the risk-adjusted performance effectively, investment becomes much less…
Top 1000 Funds: Towards an infrastructure asset class
“Infrastructure investors today use ad hoc benchmarks for unlisted infrastructure investment. EDHECinfra wishes to establish an industry standard for the…
The Financial Times: Infrastructure investors seek better performance data
“Three-quarters of industry representatives said they would use an infrastructure investment benchmark to understand how assets are performing, according to…
Infrastructure Investor: ‘Wanted’: better performance data
“A majority of infrastructure investors agree that standardised performance data is needed to better judge returns, according to research from…
IPE Real Assets: Infrastructure investors reject traditional sector segmentation
“Traditional geographic and sectoral categories used for capital markets benchmarks have been widely rejected by institutional infrastructure investors, according to…
IPE Real Assets: Infrastructure: Calling time on borrowed definitions
As infrastructure investment grows, the boundaries are being stretched by some asset managers investing in real estate-type assets with infrastructure…
ETF Stream: Are infrastructure funds all that they seem?
“The Argentinian presidency of the G20 opens this month and will be marked by a focus on infrastructure investment. The…
Asian Venture Capital Journal: Asian LPs and infrastructure
“The traditional asset managers are now having to operate in what they call the value-add space, where the asset might…
IPE Real Assets: Listed infrastructure funds should be ‘clearly labelled’
“Listed infrastructure, in its current form, cannot be called an asset class. Asset managers offering so called ‘infrastructure funds’ are…
Infrastructure Investor: Is listed infra fake or real?
EDHECinfra’s Frédéric Blanc-Brude went head-to-head with David Bentley, of GIP-backed ATLAS Infrastructure, in an Oxford-style debate at the Infrastructure Investor…
Inframation: Addressing currency risk in Asia
“Some investors are happy to see infrastructure as a lower return/lower risk asset because they have a different balance sheet.…
Inframation: Survey casts doubt on greenfield risk premia
The latest Investor Perceptions of Infrastructure 2017 survey finds that investors do not require a greater risk premium to invest…
P&I: Institutional investors eye bigger infrastructure allocations, with focus on emerging markets
Sophie Baker reported some of the findings of our 2017 global survey. “Institutional investors want to increase their allocations to…
Institutional Asset Manager: Infrastructure investors continue to attract global investors
“A new global survey of major international institutional investors has found strong investor demand for infrastructure, including record levels of…
Infrastructure Investor: Listed infra is a sector bet
Frédéric Blanc-Brude doubles down on why he thinks listed infrastructure – in its current form should not be called a…
Le casse-tête de la diversification des investissements en infrastructures
Sophie Roland highlights the challenges faced by infrastructure investors in terms of diversification using some insights from EDHEC research (in…
Top 1000 Funds: ‘Fake infra’ threatens real deal
“Support for infrastructure investment, the idea that asset owners should commit to long-term capital projects through a mix of debt…
EDHECinfra pleads for watchdog intervention on ‘fake infra’
“Singapore-based EDHEC Infrastructure Institute has called on the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the European Securities and Markets Authority…
Inframation: Why listed infrastructure still divides opinion
“Some active managers now they can deliver the infrastructure story, and because infrastructure is fashionable it sells. But all they…
In the mood for loans: Indexation coming to infrastructure investment market
“This report discusses two topics: first, what we see as a major achievement for the infrastructure market with the June…
Benchmarking: Measuring up
Alternative asset classes all started off as exotic, undocumented propositions. Hedge funds, venture capital, commodities, even private real estate once…
EDHECinfra benchmarks show the promise of portfolio diversification
Frederic Blanc-Brude writes for Inframation post and explains how the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute’s new infrastructure benchmarks measure performance, asset pricing,…
Fake infra? They beg to differ
EDHECinfra’s research paper “Searching for a listed infrastructure asset class” is the topic of debate in an Infrastructure Investor roundtable.…
Global investors are cautious of China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’
Douglas Appell looks at the attractiveness of one-belt-one-road infrastructure projects for international investors. “It becomes a question of how feasible…
The Financial Times: Listed infrastructure investment is a great story, but it is a fake
“For the past 15 years infrastructure investment has been the preserve of large sophisticated investors. It is rapidly becoming more…
First benchmarks for infrastructure
This story was originally published by top1000funds.com “EDHEC Infrastructure Institute is releasing 384 indices covering private infrastructure equity and debt…
Inframation: Singapore based EDHECinfra to launch Asia indices
EDHECinfra plans to launch new indices that will enable life insurance companies to further increase their exposure to Asian infrastructure,…
Funds Global: Infrastructure indices launched in Singapore
“Our benchmarks will change the way investors approach and manage their infrastructure investments,” said Frédéric Blanc-Brude, director of the Singaporean…
IPE Real Estate: EDHEC launches infrastructure debt and equity indices
EDHEC Infrastructure Institute Singapore (EDHECinfra) is releasing 384 infrastructure debt and equity indices. The indices are designed to change how…
Infrastructure Investor: Listed infra, the asset class that wasn’t?
“Listed infrastructure tends to be very high volatility, very highly correlated with the market; not at all what you think…
IP&E Real Assets: Asset Allocation: Saying no to infrastructure
Rachel Fixsen discusses NBIM’s decision not invest in infrastructure. “Frédéric Blanc-Brude, director of EDHEC Infrastructure Institute, says the decision not…
Seeing growth in greenfield funds
Douglas Appell looks at the development of funds that give investors access to greenfield infrastructure. “In a recent interview, Frederic…
Investors arrive at infrastructure investing from different paths
Douglas Appell examines how investors end up investing in infrastructure and asks if things could improve. “Frederic Blanc-Brude, Singapore-based director…
EDHEC spearheads infrastructure research in Singapore
Partly funded with a grant by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the research by EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra) aims to…
Real Assets: The sting in the loan tail
Frédéric Blanc-Brude and Majid Hasan present a rigorous – yet implementable – framework for measuring the performance of private infrastructure…