• Fund Fee Review

    The superannuation fund wanted to review the management fees they were paying for investment services considering the performance achieved, with the aim of securing better commercial terms. While the fund had been invested with many

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  • Global Emerging Markets Small-Cap Equity

    This client, an Australian superannuation fund, was making its first dedicated allocation to small-cap stocks in emerging markets (EM). The mandate was intended to serve as a high alpha component of the pension fund’s overall equity

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  • Global Small-Cap Equity

    The client, an Australian superannuation fund, engaged bfinance to identify high-alpha global small-cap equity strategies to complement its existing roster of large- and all-cap managers investing globally across developed and emerging

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  • Multi-Sector Fixed Income – Leveraged Finance

    This UK pension scheme was seeking to benchmark the fees being paid to more than a dozen managers across 20-plus strategies in public markets, alternatives and private markets given the scheme’s rapid growth in assets under management

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  • Portfolio Solutions – Fee Review

    This Australian asset owner engaged bfinance to provide a value-for-money assessment on a large, diversified portfolio of assets worth more than AUD100 billion.

  • Portfolio Solutions – Private Pension Fee Review

    This client, an Australian pension scheme, sought assistance to conduct a full value-for-money review of the management fees it was paying for investment services.

  • Alternative Credit

    The investor mandated bfinance to search for an alternative credit strategy with a view to investing c. AUD 50 million through a pooled fund. A typical return expectation for this type of strategy is cash + 4-6%.

  • Alternative Risk Premia

    The investor sought a comprehensive review of the alternative risk premia manager landscape with a view to investing approximately AUD300m with a single manager via a separately managed account targeting a return of cash plus 4% per

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  • Emerging Market and Asia Equity

    An Australian corporate pension plan sought to invest a further AUD 200 million in Global Emerging Market Equity and potentially Asia ex-Japan, through one or multiple mandates.