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Opinion pieces from the team, and uses cases covering private markets, infrastructure investment, climate change, social risk, and more.

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Ebitda Multiple Comps: Perth Airport

Aug. 30, 2023
We have demonstrated over the last few newsletters how to employ infraMetrics® data to price up already completed deals. This month we’re looking to try something different: price up a possible transaction. This deal hasn’t happened, and we’re not sure if it will, but this is a demonstration of the value of the data available in the infraMetrics® platform. In
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Risk Premia: Good times are over, now it gets harder

Aug. 30, 2023
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
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Ebitda Multiple Comps: Angel Trains

Jul. 27, 2023
In June, Arjun Infrastructure Partners acquired a 10% stake in Angel Trains from Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), a Canadian pension fund. Despite this transaction, PSP Investments will continue to hold the majority ownership of Angel Trains, retaining a 64.25% stake in the company. The financial details of the transaction have not been publicly disclosed. Established in 1994,
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Q2 2023 InfraMetrics Data Release: infrastructure flat as macroeconomic environment stabilises

Jul. 27, 2023
EDHECinfra unlisted infrastructure equity indicesOur analysis of infrastructure equity indices has been based on three indices in equal weights and local currency: infra300 index: a global infrastructure index, comprised of 300 assets with a total market capitalisation of USD320 billion. infra100 Core index: consists of 100 infrastructure companies in the core segment of the infrastructure market. InfraGreen index: with 106
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Is Thames Water just a case of bad management?

Jul. 18, 2023
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
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Ebitda Mutiple Comps: Millau Viaduct

Jun. 27, 2023
Eiffage, a French infrastructure operator, has strengthened its hold on the Millau Viaduct concession by acquiring the remaining 49% stake from Banque des Territoires, thus gaining full ownership. The Millau Viaduct, standing among the most elevated bridges globally, was built to reduce traffic congestion and improve traffic flow between Paris and Barcelona. It provides a direct route between the two