Insights

Opinion pieces from the team, and uses cases covering private markets, infrastructure investment, climate change, social risk, and more.

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Unlock ICS Compliance with infraMetrics and privateMetrics

Dec. 12, 2024
The adoption of the Insurance Capital Standard (ICS) by IAIS establishes a new global framework for capital adequacy, providing a risk-sensitive approach to enhance financial stability for Internationally Active Insurance Groups (IAIGs). How infraMetrics and privateMetrics Support ICS Compliance: Market-Aligned Valuation: These platforms provide timely, market-driven data that meets ICS’s Market-Adjusted Valuation (MAV) requirements, ensuring accurate and consistent reporting. Tailored
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infraMetrics® Asset Valuation Methodology

Oct. 04, 2024
The infraMetrics asset pricing model allows estimating the fair market value of unlisted infrastructure equity investments in a robust and dynamic manner. It improves greatly on traditional approaches which tend to generate backward-looking or ‘stale’ net asset values that are not aligned with the level of market prices at the time of reporting.
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Measuring and tracking the alpha of private market funds

Sep. 19, 2024
Scientific Infra & Private Assets is pleased to present an approach using privateMetrics® data to measure and track the alpha of private market funds, allowing robust and representative fund selection and monitoring. infraMetrics® & privateMetrics® provide access to hundreds of benchmarks across the infrastructure and private equity asset classes, enabling investors to create the most representative benchmark for the fund
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IPE Supplement: EDHECInfra & Private Assets Research Insights

Sep. 16, 2024
In this supplement, we analyse ESG risks and their consequences for investors, assess the investment impact of climate risk on global infrastructure, and share our latest research findings on infrastructure investment portfolio construction and risk management.
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P&I Supplement: Research for Institutional Money Management

Aug. 05, 2024
We examine ESG risks and their implications for the investment community, the investment impact of climate risk on global infrastructure, and present our latest research insights into infrastructure investment portfolio construction and risk management.
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NAV 2.0: A better asset pricing model for private infra

May. 02, 2024
CAPM may be ‘one of the founding frameworks of modern finance’, but for determining the net asset value of unlisted infrastructure it is terribly inadequate. Frédéric Blanc-Brude, the director of the EDHEC Infrastructure Institute explains why and offers an alternative. Originally published in Infrastructure Investor. When reporting the NAV of unlisted assets like infrastructure using discounted cashflows, best practice consists