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Know your TICCS®, understand your risks

Mar. 04, 2020
Infrastructure index provider EDHECinfra releases 2020 version of its industry-backed infrastructure investment taxonomy, which enables investors to build customised benchmarks reflecting the true risk exposures of their infrastructure portfolios. Since its launch in 2018, The Infrastructure Companies Classification Standard or TICCS® has become an industry standard and is widely used by infrastructure investors to categorise their assets and better understand
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UK Water Utilities: Why the negative returns in 2019Q4?

Jan. 26, 2020
[mathjax] In this note, we provide some details and clarifications about our 2019Q4 index release with a focus on the performance of UK water utilities. Our 16th January release mentions that upward movements in gilt rates in the last months of 2019 led to negative returns for numerous infrastructure companies in that quarter, especially firms with very long-term cash flow
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2019Q4 Index Release (Erratum)

Jan. 25, 2020
In the 2019Q4 Index Release made on January 16, 2020, it was mentioned that South East Water suffered a negative return in the 4th quarter of 2019 due to a “revision of its financial forecast.” This statement was not accurate on two counts: The forecast in question is produced by EDHECinfra’s cash flow models and analyses but was not produced or
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2019Q4 Index Release: Up on the Year, Down on the Quarter

Jan. 16, 2020
Unlisted infrastructure equity gave back some of the year’s gains in the final quarter of 2019 as rising bond yields curbed DCF valuations. Despite lower risk premia, performance was also tempered by flat average revenue growth. The EDHECinfra Global Unlisted Equity Index fell 2.58% to 5228 points by year end, though that still represents a year-on-year gain of 14.06%. The
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An asset class is born

Jul. 17, 2019
New indices, better benchmarks The next generation of EDHECinfra indices is ready. Computed quarterly, they use meticulously curated private data on hundreds of companies in the 25 most active global markets. They utilise cutting-edge fair value asset pricing methods to gauge value in private infrastructure investments. A key element in this project’s success was accurately defining the investment universe. Infrastructure
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Part 3: A factor revolution in unlisted infra

Jul. 01, 2019
A version of this blog was originally published on top1000funds.com. This blog marks our third and final article on the EDHECinfra/G20 survey of infrastructure benchmarking practices. This time, we take a look at the role of infrastructure investment benchmarks for the purpose of risk management. More than 300 respondents took part in the survey. They included representatives of 130 asset