
Frans Verhaar, CFA, CAIA, FRM, FDP
Directeur principal
Frans est un membre senior de l'équipe de conseil à la clientèle de bfinance, basée à Amsterdam. Il a rejoint bfinance en 2007, d'abord en tant que membre de l'équipe de recherche basée à Londres où il travaillait sur la sélection des gestionnaires, puis il a évolué vers la gestion des relations en 2009 en se concentrant sur les clients institutionnels néerlandais et belges. Frans a rejoint bfinance après avoir travaillé chez ING à La Haye depuis 2001, notamment au sein du département Fixed Income and Corporate Treasury, où il gérait les risques de liquidité, de change et de taux d'intérêt pour ING Insurance Holding. Auparavant, Frans a travaillé comme gestionnaire de portefeuille pour des clients institutionnels chez ING Investment Management. Frans est titulaire des certifications CFA, CAIA, FRM et FDP et d'un MScBA de l'Université Erasmus de Rotterdam.
Market intelligence:

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
‘Energy transition’ tailwinds should, it is often argued, boost the prices of particular commodities in the years ahead.

Properties of Performance: What Has Set Real Estate Fund 'Winners' Apart?
With an eye on recent difficulties in real estate portfolios, we ask: what has separated high-performing real estate managers from their weaker counterparts? And should investors consider adjusting...

‘Enhanced Indexation’ Gains Momentum as Investors Shift Gears
Asset owners are now grappling with fundamental tensions within equity portfolio design. The runaway performance of tech titans has led to fears of market over-concentration. At the same time,...

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...