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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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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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Are Equity Long/Short Managers Meeting Investors’ ESG and Climate Needs?
Equity long/short strategies are ahead of the curve on ESG and carbon emissions versus their hedge fund counterparts in other strategies–thanks largely to the groundwork laid by the long-only
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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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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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Three Carbon-cutting Pitfalls – and How to Avoid Them
Investors are placing ever-greater focus on the carbon intensity of their investments, with equity portfolios often first in line for implementation. Yet, while carbon commitments can represent 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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Entering Leveraged Loans? Three Implementation Questions to Answer
Rising interest rates and inflationary forecasts continue to underpin strong demand for Leveraged Loans, thanks in large part to their floating rate characteristics. Yet investors seeking to
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Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - May 2022
bfinance’s quarterly report in May 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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How AP1 is Driving Innovation in Manager Selection
When it comes to selecting and working with external asset managers, larger asset owners have a dual responsibility—says Majdi Chammas of Första AP-Fonden (AP1), one of Sweden’s four pension
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One Year On, Have Sustainability Disclosure Regulations Brought Clarity or Confusion?
Asset managers have moved en masse towards adopting Article 8 or 9 designations under the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) framework, introducing new funds and repurposing
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Will Your Infrastructure Investments Withstand Inflation? The 700 Billion Dollar Question
Although infrastructure is renowned as an inflation-sensitive asset class, the reality varies greatly depending on the strategy type and asset-level specifics. Not all ‘inflation-linkage’ is
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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