This report shows the need for transparent, data-driven credit risk assessment. Unlike public corporate bonds, much of the infrastructure debt universe remains unrated, privately negotiated, and opaque. Private infrastructure debt has emerged as a distinct fixed income asset class, combining long-term stable cash flows with structural resilience to credit risk. Backed by essential assets in energy, transport, digital, and social...

With the weak perceived performance of private equities, many pension plans’ private equities returns are lagging materially behind public market proxies. This suggests either across the board underperformance – or – that the benchmark choices may be incorrect. The evidence across ten US public pension plans makes clear that current benchmarking practices for private equity fail to reflect the private...

The measurable value-add for any allocator or fund of funds manager is the ability to consistently identify and invest in alpha-generating managers and therefore to predict fund outperformance. Using privateMetrics® to estimate total alpha and alpha persistence scores as of year-end 2018, a new report from Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA), “Picking Winners,” finds a clear pattern: managers with...

Alternative asset managers are aggressively pursuing solutions to open the large 401(k) Defined Contribution plans in the US to private asset strategies. It is still early days but there have been enough meaningful partnerships among major alternative asset managers, target date fund managers, recordkeepers, and trust companies that it seems only likely to continue. The latest report from Scientific Infra...

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