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.