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From energy transition to digital infrastructure: how private infrastructure is reshaping the playing field of risk, appreciation and opportunities for institutional investors. Infrastructure is developing faster than ever. The boundaries between traditional and new infrastructure assets are shifting due to the energy transition, digital connectivity and changing regulation. What once seemed like a relatively stable, contract-driven asset class today requires

A credible valuation regime, grounded in procedural clarity and technological capability, is indispensable to investor fairness, systemic resilience, and the legitimacy of private markets. A new paper from EDHEC Infra & Private Assets highlights why expanding private markets require more timely, transparent, and disciplined valuation. Since the global financial crisis, institutional investors have undertaken a structural reallocation toward private markets,

The valuations of unlisted assets anchor everything from capital-allocation and risk-management decisions and regulatory reporting. Yet, despite the principles-based guidance of IFRS 13, ASC 820, and the IPEV Guidelines, day-to-day practice remains opaque and highly discretionary. A recent paper from EDHEC Infra & Private Assets provides the first large-scale empirical portrait of those practices. Drawing on a global survey of

CAPM may be ‘one of the founding frameworks of modern finance’, but for determining the net asset value of unlisted infrastructure it is terribly inadequate. Frédéric Blanc-Brude, the director of the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute explains why and offers an alternative. Originally published in Infrastructure Investor. When reporting the NAV of unlisted assets like infrastructure using discounted cashflows, best practice consists

This is a grim headline, but with the economic shifts over the last two years, we might be seeing a more difficult market for infrastructure investment. From our perspective, we are observing some interesting shifts in the market. Firstly, despite the evidence that inflation may be cooling in major economies, there is evidence that interest rates might be higher for

Can you really lose GBP1.5Bn in a couple of quarters when investing in a water utility? Investments in infrastructure like water utilities are very often presented as ‘boring’, slow-moving, low-risk assets, that also happen to be cash cows. That latter point is true, as my colleagues have shown in previous research. The rest is wishful thinking at best, but mostly