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Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - August 2023
bfinance’s quarterly report in August 2023: read the team’s latest insights on institutional investor activity, risk appetite, market developments and asset manager performance across all major
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Shariah-compliant Private Market Investing
The number of Shariah-compliant private market solutions has boomed in recent years, supporting investors that seek to improve risk diversification and reduce regional concentration. This brief
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How Canada Post is Reducing Risk through Innovation
At the end of 2022, the Canada Post pension plan joined the growing list of pension funds across the country whose highly funded status has caused the regulator to instruct a mandatory
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Asset Owner Survey: Investors’ Costs and Fees
Investors are grappling with cost management challenges amid persistent inflation, heightened ESG requirements and regulatory burdens. To find out more, bfinance surveyed nearly 200 asset owners
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The biodiversity challenge: How can investors make a difference?
On 20th June 2023, investors gathered in London for a roundtable on the theme of biodiversity. Recent years have seen sustainability and climate change placed atop the priority list for many
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Iceland’s SL Pension Pursues Internationalisation and Illiquidity
Less than a decade after the removal of capital controls that banned pension funds from investing assets overseas, Iceland is now achieving international recognition for the strength and health
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How Do “Liquid” Private Market Strategies Square the Circle? Part 1: Private Credit
The past two years have seen huge growth in the availability of private market strategies that offer some degree of in-built liquidity, such as open-ended funds and diversified multi-manager
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Rise of the Allocators: Multi-manager Strategies for Alternative Investing
Powerful forces have supported the growth and evolution of multi-manager models for ‘alternative’ investing over the past fifteen years.
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Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - May 2023
bfinance’s quarterly report in May 2023: read the team’s latest insights on institutional investor activity, risk appetite, market developments and asset manager performance across all major
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How Alternative Investing is Evolving at Denmark's Velliv
Next month will mark five years since Velliv (formerly Nordea Liv and Pension, Denmark) left its parent company—the banking group Nordea—to forge a new identity as a member-owned pension
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'Impact' in Private Equity: What Is Best Practice?
The ‘impact’ private equity sector is rapidly growing and maturing. Yet it is far from straightforward to assess the credibility of these strategies. This report showcases the current fund
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Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - February 2023
bfinance’s quarterly report in February 2023: read the team’s latest insights on institutional investor activity, risk appetite, market developments and asset manager performance across all major
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Should Investors Press Pause on Private Credit Commitments?
Investors are considering whether to slow down their deployment to illiquid strategies or maintain their previous pace after a year of disappointing performance in bond and equity markets,
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DACH Investor Trends in Focus
Asset owner data from bfinance’s biennial Global Asset Owner Survey: Traps and Transitions reveals key differences
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FTX Debacle Highlights Key Points for Investor Due Diligence
BlackRock, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Sequoia Capital are among the named investors of FTX — the Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange whose collapse has made headlines across the
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Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - November 2022
bfinance’s quarterly report in November 2022: read the team’s latest insights on institutional investor activity, risk appetite, market developments and asset manager performance across all major
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Infrastructure Investment at an Inflection Point
Investors have appeared satisfied, so far, with the resilience shown by their infrastructure portfolios through the turmoil of 2022. The combination of inflation sensitivity, low real interest
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Global Asset Owner Survey: Traps and Transitions
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’
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UK Investor Snap Poll Reveals Shift in Allocation Intentions
A quick poll of UK Asset Owners on October 18-19 2022 suggests a significant change in expectations for asset class exposures over the next year, versus a survey conducted one month prior. A
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DNA of a Manager Search: Impact Real Estate
The ‘DNA of a Manager Search’ series seeks to provide investors with practical insight on implementation through the lens of real-life examples. Here, a UK LGPS fund carves a new ‘impact’
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