Search insights by tag:
- Alternative Risk Premia
- Currency
- Diversifying Strategies
- Emerging Markets
- Equity
- ESG
- Fees
- Fixed Income
- Governance
- Hedge Funds
- Impact
- Infrastructure
- Investor Spotlight
- Manager Selection
- Monitoring
- Multi Asset
- Operational Risk
- Portfolio Design
- Private Debt
- Private Equity
- Private Markets
- Real Assets
- Real Estate
- Risk
- Strategic Asset Allocation
-
Illiquid Investments for Impact: Five Key Takeaways
With a clear trend towards impact-oriented investment activity among bfinance’s global client base, the bfinance research team recently held an investor training seminar focusing on illiquid
... -
Insurer Investment Survey
The bfinance 2022 Insurer Investment Survey provides a detailed look at key changes in insurance firms’ investment portfolios, risk exposures and resourcing/implementation.
-
Investment Management Fees: Capturing Price Evolution
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
... -
Impact in Private Equity: Sector in Brief
‘Impact’ private equity investing has become a distinct sub-sector, with a rapidly-increasing universe of dedicated funds and a stream of new managers entering the space. This brief review
... -
Carbon Cuts or Climate Impact? New Choices for Equity Investors
With the investment industry expecting significant outcomes from COP26 in November, climate risk management and portfolio carbon exposures have never been higher on investors’ agendas.
-
Wealth Manager Investment Survey
A new study, featuring data from 120 wealth managers around the globe, identifies significant changes in investment capabilities, ESG integration and strategy.
-
Asset Owner Investment Vehicles - Sector in Brief
More investors are launching a dedicated investment vehicle to house assets rather than investing in a wide range of pooled funds, separately managed accounts or ‘funds-of-one’. Find out more
... -
From Laggards to Leaders? Hedge Funds Slowly Embrace ESG
Hedge fund managers have long defied the asset management industry’s drive toward greater consideration of ESG-related investment factors, but investors’ shifting priorities are sparking
... -
Renewable Energy Infrastructure: Lessons from Manager Selection
The renewable energy infrastructure landscape is evolving rapidly, as are asset managers’ strategies. This paper illustrates key developments, including case studies of recent manager
... -
Nordic and Dutch Investors Drive Impact Innovations
Nordic and Dutch investors are shifting the ESG agenda decisively towards ‘impact’ – whether that takes the form of measuring non-financial portfolio outcomes ex post or targeting social and
... -
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
... -
Small Cap: Old Questions, New Answers
Investors are demonstrating appetite for small cap equity strategies late in the market cycle. Yet the motivations for seeking small cap are evolving and the product universe has changed.
-
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
... -
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
... -
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
... -
Storebrand’s ESG Journey from Exclusions to Solutions
When Storebrand first established a sustainable investment team in the mid-1990s, ESG investing still represented largely uncharted territory, with little external data available.
-
Active Equity Management: A Question of Style?
Recent bfinance reports highlight the extent to which style factors have driven equity returns through the COVID-19 crisis, with value materially underperforming at one end and quality delivering
... -
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.
-
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
... -
Green Bonds - 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
...
Page 3 of 4