The following article reports on several infrastructure performance indexes. Details of the indexes, including how they are constructed and used, are available at https://edhec.infrastructure.institute/indices/ and https://edhec.infrastructure.institute/infra300-index/. Note: All reported data is for equally weighted indices expressed in local current total returns.

The unlisted infrastructure asset class is finally showing signs of recovery from COVID-19 with a significant drop in the equity risk premium in second quarter 2021, ending six consecutive quarters of losses.

Since the onset of COVID-19, this quarter marks the first in which all segments of the infrastructure market have shown a positive return, even as interest rates remain at the highest level seen in more than a year amid ongoing fears of rising inflation.

The infra300® index, which tracks a representative global sample of unlisted infrastructure equity investments worth approximately $250 billio