REPORTS

The infrastructure asset class showed resilience this quarter amid various macroeconomic and geopolitical headwinds with both infrastructure equity and debt showing positive returns. High demand for unlisted infrastructure continues to support asset values. The infra300® index, which tracks a representative global sample of unlisted infrastructure equity investments worth more than $300bn, had a 8.81% total return in Q1 2023 (local...

Central banks continue to tighten monetary policy in the UK, Europe and the US.  As of March 2023, the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates nine times since March 2022 (Smith & Duguid, 2023). The European Central Bank also raised interest rates in March, albeit from a lower base, despite ongoing concern about financial stability in the region in the...

SSE plc has sold a 25% stake in its SSEN Transmission SPV, which operates the energy transmission network in the north of Scotland, to Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board for $1.77bn. The deal was completed in December 2022 and achieved a price-to-sales of 9.16. This is above the 3.1 average for UK network utilities sales (absolute last five-year mean), according...

In a year where global stocks and bonds lost more than $30tn[1] on account of high inflation, rising interest rates, and the ongoing war in Ukraine, unlisted infrastructure equity has fared well. Private infra debt finished the year slightly better off than corporate bonds but still heavily impacted by the rise of market yields. The infra300® index, which tracks a...

The Q4 2022 release of the EDHECinfra indices presents our updated views in the light of recent government intervention in the European and UK energy market due to the ongoing gas supply disruption. This report updates the Q3 2022 report and is presented following the TICCS® taxonomy of infrastructure companies. Over the course of the fourth quarter of 2022, European...

The cut in gas flows from Russia to Europe has had a significant impact on the electricity market in Europe, but not for reasons that you might expect. In response to the cut in flows, the European Commission mandated all countries to increase their gas storage. As a result, there has been significant activity since March to fill all gas...