PEI Group acquires SIPA
23 March 2026 Singapore, UK
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PEI Group, a global business intelligence and analytics provider, has acquired Scientific Infra and Private Assets (SIPA), a global index, benchmark, and rating provider for private infrastructure and private equity markets, developed from academic research at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord (EDHEC) Infrastructure and Private Assets Research Institute (EIPA).
SIPA's market indices, benchmarks, and rating solutions, infraMetrics, privateMetrics, and privateAlpha, will become part of PEI's asset-class platforms, bolstering PEI's ability to offer market references, valuation analytics, and advanced research for institutional investors and asset managers.
Together PEI and SIPA will deliver a suite of market analysis, fund, firm, deals data together with indices and market benchmarks which will enable strategy, risk, and investment teams to make informed investment decisions.
Using PEI’s reach, access to SIPA data will expand to the entire private market ecosystem, from institutional investors to consultants and fund managers, private wealth advisors, and retail investors.
This integration will allow both PEI and SIPA clients to have access to a unified granular view of private markets performance and risk reporting, fund and manager selection and private asset valuation.
PEI will partner directly with EDHEC and EIPA, ensuring continued academic development of the quantitative methodologies underpinning SIPA's technology.
Edouard Tavernier, CEO, PEI Group, remarks: "SIPA's recognised private asset benchmarks are an excellent fit with PEI's strategy of providing vital intelligence for decision-makers in global private markets.
“By integrating infraMetrics, privateMetrics and privateAlpha within our platforms and augmenting them with our unique insights and differentiated data sets, we will take a major step forward in our commitment to providing rigorous analytics to investors and fund managers.”"
Frédéric Blanc-Brude, CEO, SIPA, notes: "SIPA was created to bring scientific rigour to private markets, and PEI is the ideal partner to scale that mission.
“With access to PEI's global intelligence, research network, and client reach, we can accelerate the evolution of our rankings, benchmarks, and analytics — and deliver broader, more actionable insights to our clients. We will also continue working closely with EDHEC to ensure our products remain anchored in world-leading academic research.”"
Emmanuel Métais, dean of EDHEC Business School, adds: “"EDHEC ventures like SIPA are created to transform academic research developed at EDHEC into impactful and relevant science-based solutions for the industry.
“The acquisition of SIPA by PEI is proof that this strategy continues to work and creates value for both EDHEC and market participants. For EDHEC, the success of SIPA is an encouragement to pursue its important investment in private asset research, whether it involves the question of asset valuation, risk measurement or the evaluation of the performance of investors in this asset class.”
SIPA's market indices, benchmarks, and rating solutions, infraMetrics, privateMetrics, and privateAlpha, will become part of PEI's asset-class platforms, bolstering PEI's ability to offer market references, valuation analytics, and advanced research for institutional investors and asset managers.
Together PEI and SIPA will deliver a suite of market analysis, fund, firm, deals data together with indices and market benchmarks which will enable strategy, risk, and investment teams to make informed investment decisions.
Using PEI’s reach, access to SIPA data will expand to the entire private market ecosystem, from institutional investors to consultants and fund managers, private wealth advisors, and retail investors.
This integration will allow both PEI and SIPA clients to have access to a unified granular view of private markets performance and risk reporting, fund and manager selection and private asset valuation.
PEI will partner directly with EDHEC and EIPA, ensuring continued academic development of the quantitative methodologies underpinning SIPA's technology.
Edouard Tavernier, CEO, PEI Group, remarks: "SIPA's recognised private asset benchmarks are an excellent fit with PEI's strategy of providing vital intelligence for decision-makers in global private markets.
“By integrating infraMetrics, privateMetrics and privateAlpha within our platforms and augmenting them with our unique insights and differentiated data sets, we will take a major step forward in our commitment to providing rigorous analytics to investors and fund managers.”"
Frédéric Blanc-Brude, CEO, SIPA, notes: "SIPA was created to bring scientific rigour to private markets, and PEI is the ideal partner to scale that mission.
“With access to PEI's global intelligence, research network, and client reach, we can accelerate the evolution of our rankings, benchmarks, and analytics — and deliver broader, more actionable insights to our clients. We will also continue working closely with EDHEC to ensure our products remain anchored in world-leading academic research.”"
Emmanuel Métais, dean of EDHEC Business School, adds: “"EDHEC ventures like SIPA are created to transform academic research developed at EDHEC into impactful and relevant science-based solutions for the industry.
“The acquisition of SIPA by PEI is proof that this strategy continues to work and creates value for both EDHEC and market participants. For EDHEC, the success of SIPA is an encouragement to pursue its important investment in private asset research, whether it involves the question of asset valuation, risk measurement or the evaluation of the performance of investors in this asset class.”
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