P&I Supplement: Research for Institutional Money Management

Carolyn Essid

This supplement highlights shortcomings in the valuation of infrastructure assets and suggests improvements, presents an innovative model based on real transaction data for private company valuation, explores underlying risk factors in private equity, and assesses the impact of fund scale on performance.

NAV 2.0: A better asset pricing model for private infra

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 … Read More