At the ILPA Forum EMEA in London on 27-29 April, 2026, Abhishek Gupta, Head of Business and Product at Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA), will be speaking at a panel discussion on “The Rise of Retail Capital in Private Markets“.

The ILPA Forum EMEA 2026 is a flagship event designed exclusively for the LP community. The agenda places participants’ priorities at the forefront, with deep dives into AI, Secondaries, Co-investments, Retail Capital, and critical sectors such as Technology, Healthcare, and Defence—topics shaping LP agendas today.

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At the Evli Alternative Investments 2026 Morning Seminar in Helsinki on Tuesday 14 April, 2026 at 11:35 CET, Abhishek Gupta, Head of Business and Product at Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA), will be hosting a presentation on Benchmarking Private Equity Performance.

Evli’s traditional seminar will comprehensively review the most current themes and outlooks in alternative investment classes. The speakers will include international and domestic experts in the field, as well as Evli’s own experts, with presentations from the perspective of institutional investors, the academic world, and Evli’s portfolio managers. The event offers an excellent opportunity to obtain up-to-date information on alternative investments, exchange ideas with other investors, and network.

How does Finland’s largest institutional investor structure its alternative investments and select funds? What are the most topical themes in alternative investment classes? Is the real estate market turning upward? How should private equity funds be evaluated? We will seek answers to these and other questions at the seminar.

Preliminary program

• 08:15: Buffet breakfast
• 09:00: Opening remarks, Kim Pessala, CEO, Evli Fund Management Company Ltd
• 09:10: Perspectives of Finland’s largest pension institution on alternative investments and their role in investment portfolios – “Fireside Chat,” Markus Pauli, Head of Alternative Investments, Finnish Local Government Pension Institution Keva
• 09:40: Market overview of alternative investment classes – What are the most topical themes in private equity, private debt and infrastructure investment classes at the moment? Richard Wanamo, Investment Director, Private Equity, Evli Fund Management Company Ltd
• 10:15: Evli’s global alternative funds update on private equity, private debt, infrastructure, forestry, and private equity co-investments, Evli fund portfolio managers
• 10:40: Coffee break
• 11:00: Outlook and status update for the real estate market, Tero Tuominen, Director, Real Estate Investments, Evli Fund Management Company Ltd
• 11:20: Outlook and status update for growth equity investments, Maiju Aspegren, Investment Manager, Evli Growth Partners, Evli Fund Management Company Ltd
• 11:35: Benchmarking Private Equity Performance, Abhishek Gupta, Head of Business and Product, Scientific Infra & Private Assets, An EDHEC Venture
• 12:05: Closing remarks, Kim Pessala, CEO, Evli Fund Management Company Ltd
• 12:10: Buffet lunch and opportunity to discuss with seminar experts and network with other participants

Please note that this event is by invitation only.

At the UK Institutional LP Summit in London on Thursday 19 February, 2026, Abhishek Gupta, Head of Business and Product at Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA), will be hosting a session on Measuring Alpha in Private Markets: Implications for Institutional LPs. The presentation will discuss:

• Why traditional private market benchmarks fail to distinguish market returns from manager skill
• What “alpha” really means in private equity and infrastructure once risk and market exposure are properly accounted for
• How LPs can evaluate funds and GPs against the private market itself rather than anecdotal peer groups
• Separating strategy allocation effects from true manager value-add in fund performance
• Implications for fund selection, re-ups, and portfolio governance

The UK Institutional LP Summit is a one-day meeting of 100+ accredited institutional investors and family offices based across the UK who gather for a day of insightful panel discussions, presentations, Q&A, and over four hours of networking.

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In a BAI webinar on Thursday 5 February, 2026 at 11:00 CET, Abhishek Gupta, Head of Business and Product at Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA), will be discussing how investors can design and use robust benchmarks for private infrastructure investing.

Benchmarks play an essential role in the investment process at all stages from asset allocation to performance monitoring and risk reporting management. Benchmarking errors or biases can lead to loss of performance, excessive risk taking, costly rebalancing and compound the denominator effect. In this webinar, we explore optimal benchmarking of private infrastructure funds, examine benchmarking best practices, and discuss how benchmarks fit within the supervisory regulatory frameworks of investors such as VAG (Solvency 1/AnlV and Solvency 2) or CRR.

Agenda

• Opening & Moderation
  Florian Bucher, consultant and market analyst Alternative Markets, BAI
• Private market benchmarks for portfolio/risk management and regulated institutional investors
  How should private infrastructure funds and managers be benchmarked to provide meaningful and comparable insights for investors?
  Best practices, emerging challenges, and the tools investors need to ensure benchmarking truly supports better decision-making in infrastructure investing
  Abhishek Gupta, SIPA
  Private market benchmarks in the regulatory context of CRR, Solvency 2, AnlV investors
  Jegor Tokarevich, SOF
• Q & A

🔗Consult the programme here.

🔗Register for the webinar here.

Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA) will be organising live demonstrations to showcase its full suite of private market analytics on the occasion of the EDHEC Infrastructure and Private Assets Day on 9 December, 2025 in London.

These workshops will provide a practical look at how SIPA’s benchmarks and data tools support risk measurement, pricing, and manager evaluation across private infrastructure equity, private equity, and private infrastructure debt:

Workshop 1: privateAlpha® Launch

Tuesday 9 December, 2025
Two sessions: 11:00-12:30 / 15:30-17:00

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Led by Frédéric Blanc-Brude, CEO, Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA)

The official soft launch of a new product, privateAlpha® (a ‘Morningstar-like’ private fund and manager ranking and selection platform). The workshop will include:

• Alpha Measurement and Manager Evaluation (30 minutes)
  – How to measure alpha in private funds using privateMetrics and infraMetrics market indices and custom indices.
  – The privateAlpha fund and manager ranking scheme, including how to measure manager skill (vs luck) using Alpha persistence metrics.

• Platform Walkthrough (30 minutes)
  – Guided tour of the privateAlpha platform that tracks the performance of 500 infra funds across 70+ GPs and 600 Buyout funds across 100+ GPs.

• Q&A and Use-Case Discussion (30 minutes)
  – Participant questions and discussion of the different use cases of the platform for GPs and LPs, including the option to contribute data and to create specific custom benchmarks to best capture the pure alpha of a fund or manager, as well as requesting new alpha computations using this updated information.

Workshop 2: privateMetrics® & infraMetrics® Demo

Tuesday 9 December, 2025
Two sessions: 9:30-11:00 / 14:00-15:30

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Led by Abhishek Gupta, Head of Product, Scientific Infra & Private Assets (SIPA)

This interactive workshop will introduce participants to the data, methodologies, and tools available through the infraMetrics and privateMetrics platforms. Through live demonstrations and discussions, it will explore how the SIPA Excel Add-In enables seamless access to benchmarks and comparables in private markets. Participants are encouraged to share their perspectives on the challenges they face in private markets, including valuation, benchmarking, and risk measurement:

• Benchmarks and Comparables (45 minutes)
  – Introduction to infraMetrics and privateMetrics: index design, asset universe, and methodology.
  – Using asset level comparables for valuation and risk analysis.

•  Investor Use Cases (15 minutes)
  – Practical applications in benchmarking, asset allocation, valuation, risk reporting, and fund alpha tracking.

• Q&A and Open Discussion (30 minutes)
  – Participant questions and shared insights on market challenges and solutions.

For further information on the main event, please visit the dedicated event page.