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ESG Asset Owner Survey: How Are Investors Changing?
How are investors’ ESG priorities and practices changing? We surveyed 256 asset owners around the globe with assets in excess of US$7 trillion to discover which approaches they now use and
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Digging into Diversity Part 1: Infrastructure Managers
With diversity becoming an increasingly visible priority for investors, how do asset managers measure up? In this article we take a closer look at infrastructure managers, where recent searches
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Cashflow-generating Alternatives Change the Game at Korea’s POBA
Pension fund CIOs often enter their roles wanting to be agents of change, bringing new strategies and new perspectives to their institutions.
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Secondaries Surge: Four Questions for Private Market Investors
With crisis conditions historically proving beneficial for new private equity secondaries funds, 2020 has seen a surge in fundraising and fund launches. Yet there are problematic questions for
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Real Estate Upheaval Puts Manager Discipline in the Spotlight
The full effects of the pandemic on real estate markets are still unclear. Yet what is already evident is that the impact will not be evenly felt.
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Benchmarking Alternative Risk Premia
A challenging period for factor investing has left investors scrutinising the performance of Alternative Risk Premia strategies. In a sector where benchmarking has been problematic, this
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Investors Eye Trade Finance amid COVID Storm as Banks Ship Out
Trade Finance remains attractive in today’s ‘even lower for even longer’ climate due to its short-dated, asset-backed, yield-generating profile.
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Asset Owner Survey: Managing through Uncertainty
As the global pandemic unfolds, 368 investors representing $11 trillion in assets share their lessons learned, key portfolio changes and expectations for the year.
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Testing Times for Infrastructure Investment Resilience
While the infrastructure sector has been robust during previous crises, the COVID-19 pandemic is creating a global economic scenario quite unlike any that has preceded it.
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Mid-year Review: Five Findings on Manager Performance
In Late-July 2020, bfinance clients and other investors joined the research team (virtually, of course!) for a recap of active manager performance, portfolio positioning and investor activity in
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How Are Asset Managers Performing? Q1 Review – Key Takeaways
On April 22nd, more than 300 investors around the globe joined the bfinance research team (virtually) for a session dissecting manager performance through the crisis so far.
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Dislocation and Distress: Navigating New Opportunities
New research on 130+ opportunistic investment strategies targeting distress and dislocation amid the pandemic.
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Impact Real Estate - Sector in Brief
The latest edition in bfinance’s biennial Investment Management Fees series. New analysis highlights areas where investors may be able to benefit from pricing trends, with ESG/Impact at the
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Direct Lending: to Cycle or Not to Cycle?
The start of 2020 has brought a slew of commentary on cooling appetite for direct lending, with the release of data showing a second year-on-year decline in private debt fundraising.
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DNA of a Manager Search: Real Estate Debt
Today, investors in many illiquid asset classes are seeking subsectors and asset managers that can defy the overall yield compression of the last five years.
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Do Listed Infrastructure and REITs Work Better Together?
Amid the recent rise of Listed Infrastructure and REITs, one particularly notable change is the emergence of
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The Changing Face of Infrastructure Investment
Infrastructure, as an asset class, is now grappling with something of an identity crisis. Does it offer the same promise that underpinned demand a decade ago?
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Real Asset Debt: Lessons from Manager Selection
With a wave of pension and insurance investors entering real estate debt or infrastructure debt for the first time, three “DNA of a Manager Search” case studies provide practical insights into an
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Small Insurer Boosts Sophistication, Adds Alternatives
Foresters Friendly has been drawing the attention of the insurance investment industry in 2019, with accolades for its new approach featuring a high-quality multi-asset solution complemented by
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Insurers and Investment Risk
The latest edition in bfinance’s biennial Investment Management Fees series. New analysis highlights areas where investors may be able to benefit from pricing trends, with ESG/Impact at the
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