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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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Q4 2020 Index Release – Infrastructure and Covid: Was 2020 a bad year or the worst year?

Jan. 19, 2021
A first look at the performance of unlisted equity and private debt after a year of Covid-19.   2020 was a reminder that economic shocks can impact the bottom line of many infrastructure companies, which may also lead to solvency issues in some sectors. It was also a test of the resilience of the asset class. Above all, it was a
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Report: Q4 2020 Covid-19 Revenue Forecast Updates

Jan. 18, 2021
The Q4 2020 release of the EDHECinfra indices incorporates the views and asset-level revenue forecasts of our team of financial analysts. This report updates the Q3 2020 report and is presented following the TICCS® taxonomy of infrastructure companies. Each quarter, the team reviews the revenue forecasts of 650 companies that are currently living in the EDHECinfra universe, based on the
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Strategic Asset Allocation and Unlisted infrastructure: first results

Dec. 10, 2020
Abhishek Gupta, Senior Research Engineer and Product Specialist at EDHECinfra, answers 4 frequent questions following our latest webinar on Strategic Asset Allocation. In the October 27th webinar, you emphasised the importance of taking unlisted infrastructure into account in an investors’ strategic asset allocation (SAA). What was the primary motivation behind this choice of topic? AG: Investors have a number of
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Unlisted Infrastructure Performance Contribution, Attribution & Benchmarking

Nov. 06, 2020
We use the EDHECinfra index data to better understand the performance of two peer groups of infrastructure investors: large asset managers and large asset owners. This case study documents how they perform relative to the market, and to each other and why they perform the way they do.
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Q3 2020 Index Release – Back in positive territory thanks to a strong cash yield.

Oct. 14, 2020
Back in positive territory thanks to a strong cash yield. Roads are back in the black but airports struggle on. Contracted infrastructure continues to be a safe bet The unlisted infrastructure asset class is back to positive returns at the aggregate level, but only thanks to the strong cash yield of infrastructure companies. The infra300 index which tracks a representative global sample
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Report: Q3 2020 Covid-19 Revenue Forecasts Update

Oct. 14, 2020
The Q3 2020 release of the EDHECinfra indices incorporates the views and asset-level revenue forecasts of our team of financial analysts. by Jack Lee and the team 1.     Overview: Q3 Update – EDHECinfra updates to cash flow projections due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on infrastructure investments At the beginning of the third quarter of 2020, some countries