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Julien Barral
Senior Director, Private Markets
Julien ist Senior Director im Private Markets Team und spezialisiert auf Private Equity und Immobilien. Bevor er im November 2020 zu bfinance zurückkehrte, war Julien Managing Director von GS Invest, einer Boutique für Immobilieninvestitionen aus London. In dieser Funktion war er für die strategische Planung, Bewertung und Umsetzung von neuer Strategien verantwortlich. Darüber hinaus leitet und koordinierte Julien das Investment Team. Bevor er zu GS Invest kam, war er 11 Jahre bei bfinance tätig, unter anderem als Senior Associate im Aktien Research Team und Leiter des Analystenteams. Davor hat er bei Fortis Banque in Monaco gearbeitet. Julien hat einen Bachelorabschluss in angewandter Mathematik von der Universität Nizza, einen Master in Finanzen von der Edhec Business School und ist Mitverfasser einer Reihe von Artikeln über Smart Beta.
Weitere Veröffentlichungen der Spezialisten:
Private Markets and the Asset Allocation Imperative
The question of how to integrate private market investments into strategic asset allocation models represents one of the most significant and sensitive issues that allocators face today. This report...
Navigating Potential Pitfalls in ‘Semi-liquid’ Private Equity
Liquidity-friendly vehicles for illiquid asset classes are on the rise. In order to avoid potential pitfalls, however, it is crucial to interrogate asset managers’ approaches. As part of our...
Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - February 2025
bfinance’s quarterly report in February 2025: read the team’s latest insights on institutional investor activity, risk appetite, market developments and asset manager performance across all major...
Impact Private Debt: DNA of a Manager Search
The ‘Impact Private Debt’ sector has undergone a significant phase of expansion during the past two years. This report presents an overview of currently available strategies, while an illustrative...
Four Family Office Trends to Watch in 2025
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Time to Press for Better Fees in Private Markets?
A new survey of more than 300 investors (Global Asset Owner Survey, November 2024) indicates that more than 40% believe ‘like-for-like’ fees for Private Equity managers have decreased in the past...
Global Asset Owner Survey: Risk and Resilience
A secular macroeconomic transition has created an unenviable series of choices—and potential traps— for pension funds, insurers, endowments, foundations, family offices and other ‘asset owners’...
Diagnosis: Opportunity? Direct Lending in Healthcare
Private debt investors are eyeing apparently superior returns in healthcare lending, with funds’ net IRR targets suggesting a premium of more than 300bps versus conventional direct lending...
