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Thames Water: A lesson in infrastructure valuations

Careful consideration of trends in Thames Water's cost of capital and volatility, calculated using an appropriate risk model, would have anticipated the operator's financial difficulties. The failure to recognise the loss in value at the right time raises the question of how to value this type of asset.
Asset Allocation

How Railpen keeps illiquid asset allocation on track

New research on private markets at Railpen has produced a framework that focuses on scenario planning and the uncertainty inherent in illiquid investments taking account of “portfolio steerability”, allocation drift and the impact on short-term liquidity management resulting in a more dynamic approach.