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We carried out the largest survey of infrastructure investors ever made. Here’s what we found: The largest survey of infrastructure investors ever undertaken shows that most investors cannot benchmark the risks they find themselves exposed to when investing in unlisted infrastructure. EDHECinfra releases a new survey sponsored by the Global Infrastructure Hub (GIH, a G20 Initiative). More than 300 respondents

New EDHECinfra research documents the factors behind the evolution of unlisted infrastructure prices over past 15 years. Common risk factors found in numerous asset classes explain the evolution of unlisted infrastructure secondary market prices. That’s the finding of a new paper drawn from the EDHECinfra /LTIIA Research Chair. Interestingly, the paper also shows that that, after a long period of

We examine the results of a large survey of infrastructure investors and their preferences for the segmentation of the infrastructure asset class and set out a taxonomy of unlisted infrastructure investment indices and benchmarks that will now be used to compute all EDHECinfra indices, sub-indices and custom benchmarks.

This blog was originally published on the World Bank’s PPP Blog Website. It’s past time for proper infrastructure benchmarks The Argentinian presidency of the G20 opens this month. All the signs indicate that it will be marked by a focus on infrastructure investment. Already, the G20 and OECD have announced a wide-scale data collection initiative for the purpose of creating

In this position paper, we document the dangerous rise of the so-called listed infrastructure asset class, an ill-defined series of financial products that initially targeted retail investors and now increasingly reaches institutional investors, which now represent close to a third of the sector.

This paper is the first of a series discussing the opportunity for long-term institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies or sovereign wealth funds, to invest in large portfolios of infrastructure debt, both to manage their liabilities and to minimise their exposure to capital market volatility.