SIPA Day 2026 will bring private-market performance measurement to New York on October 15. Scientific Infra & Private Assets, part of PEI, is organizing the conference at Convene, 101 Park Avenue, with a program spanning private equity and infrastructure. The published schedule runs from 8:50 AM to 6:30 PM EDT.
The agenda puts manager skill, valuation and portfolio risk together, including a planned introduction of SIPA's Alpha Rankings. For institutional allocators, the consequential question is how a reported return becomes a judgment about the person managing the money. A beautifully composed performance chart can still leave that judgment doing a great deal of unpaid work.
Researchers Evan Clark and Demi Chung will contribute sessions on portfolio construction and valuation practices. The event offers a specific reason for investment, risk and valuation teams to compare their assumptions before those assumptions reach an investment committee. Its relevance lies in the measurement decisions underneath capital allocation.
SIPA Day's official agenda moves from portfolio construction into pricing, manager performance and valuation. That progression matters because each stage changes the question an investor can reasonably ask. A return figure describes an outcome; choosing an appropriate comparison helps establish what the outcome means.
SIPA plans to present research on separating market performance from manager contribution, alongside its Alpha Rankings. An allocator examining a ranking should ask how the benchmark was constructed, what risks it captures and how the method handles investments without daily transaction prices. The practical value of the discussion will depend on the answers to those questions.
For a manager, the same scrutiny changes how an investment story needs to be told. Operating improvements, financial decisions and market conditions can all sit inside a successful exit narrative. An investor trying to understand repeatable skill needs a way to examine those components without treating every favorable movement as managerial brilliance.
That makes the conference relevant to people who commission, build or challenge private-market analysis. The program gives them a common subject to argue over: the machinery that turns a portfolio record into a performance claim. Better questions here can travel into diligence, reporting and the next conversation about fees.
Evan Clark, Senior Private Market Analyst at the EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute, is scheduled to discuss applying the Total Portfolio Approach to private assets. The institute's current staff biographies confirm his role and spelling. The session places a concrete implementation question in front of teams responsible for the whole portfolio.
The portfolio question is straightforward to state and difficult to execute: how do private holdings contribute to the risks of the entire investment pool? An allocation label tells a committee where capital has been assigned. It leaves additional work to establish the exposures carried by that allocation and how those exposures interact with the rest of the portfolio.
SIPA's June 2026 research series examines translating private assets into factor exposures and using a reference portfolio as a governance tool. These are the publisher's research frameworks, with assumptions that deserve inspection. The useful invitation for attendees is to examine how a measurement method changes an allocation conversation.
For teams building analytics products, that conversation also identifies an operational requirement: a number needs an explanation that survives a handoff. A risk professional, portfolio manager and reporting team may use the same data for different decisions. A method that makes those relationships explicit can give the conversation a firmer starting point. DevCuration's coverage of the Private Markets AI Summit examines the related challenge of institutional decision infrastructure.
Demi Chung, PhD, Senior Researcher at the EDHEC Infrastructure & Private Assets Research Institute, will address private-asset valuation practices and the evolving regulatory landscape. Her employer identifies accounting standards and financial reporting as her specialty. The session places the production of a value estimate beside the responsibility of explaining it.
Valuation carries a social life inside an institution. A figure moves from the team preparing it to people assessing risk, approving allocations and answering stakeholders. Each handoff can conceal assumptions if the recipients receive only the finished number. The conference's focus gives those assumptions a place in the discussion before a reporting decision hardens around them.
The afternoon agenda extends fair-value measurement into the context of retail investment products and then examines selling decisions associated with the denominator effect. In general terms, changes in the value of a portfolio's components can change their relative weights. When measurements arrive on different clocks, understanding that movement requires care.
The planned session on selling private assets makes that issue concrete without supplying its conclusions in advance. Readers should watch for the evidence presented, the valuation dates used and the way the analysis distinguishes a measured change from a decision made under pressure. The resulting questions could matter well beyond a single day's presentations.
Scientific Infra & Private Assets brings a commercial data business and research relationships to this event. SIPA's current company overview identifies it as part of PEI and describes its continued academic partnership with EDHEC. That relationship explains the mix of research presentations and institutional discussion, while leaving attendees responsible for evaluating the methods on offer.
The official program credits SIPA CEO Frederic Blanc-Brude and Abhishek Gupta with research presentations and panel moderation. Portfolio construction, manager attribution and valuation each demand different expertise, so the opportunity is to connect questions that might otherwise sit in separate meetings. The agenda also provides lunch, breaks and a closing reception for those conversations to continue.
The physical venue is Convene at 101 Park Avenue, whose published address is New York, NY 10017. Readers considering attendance should use PEI's official registration page for current access details. Public source pages reviewed for this article did not establish a ticket price or registration deadline.
Within DevCuration's event coverage, SIPA Day belongs to the decisions behind investment infrastructure. On October 15, the useful conversations will start where a polished return chart leaves off: with the benchmark, the valuation date and the explanation an allocator is willing to carry back to committee.
The agenda is most relevant to institutional allocators, portfolio and risk teams, valuation professionals and private-market data specialists. That audience assessment reflects the scheduled topics, not a promise of eligibility or investment outcomes.
Allocators should examine the benchmark, the risks it captures and the method used to distinguish market return from manager contribution. The event plans to address manager skill and persistence; rankings and conference conclusions should not be assumed before presentation.
Evan Clark is scheduled to discuss implementing the approach with private assets. The practical question is how private holdings contribute to whole-portfolio exposures, beyond the labels used for capital allocation.
The official agenda includes a panel on fair-value measurement in the context of retail products. It connects the preparation of a value estimate with how investors interpret and use that estimate, without predicting a regulatory outcome.
SIPA Day is scheduled for October 15, 2026, from 8:50 AM to 6:30 PM EDT at Convene, 101 Park Avenue, New York. Readers should check PEI’s official registration page for current access conditions; the reviewed public sources did not establish a ticket price or registration cutoff.