Sam Gervaise-Jones

Sam Gervaise-Jones, CFA

Managing Director, Client Consulting

Sam Gervaise-Jones leads client consulting with strategic clients in the UK. Sam has over 20 years of experience in financial markets. He joined bfinance in 2004 where, as a Senior Associate in the research team, Sam advised clients on manager selection in a wide range of asset classes. Since 2007 Sam has been responsible for relationships with many of bfinance’s largest Corporate and Local Authority Pension clients in the UK. More recently, Sam led the expansion of bfinance into the US and bfinance’s activities with the LGPS Pooling organisations. Since 2020, Sam has also acted as an Independent Adviser to LGPS Funds, with Cambridgeshire, Essex, and London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Pension Funds all benefiting from his expertise. Prior to bfinance, Sam spent 4 years with Standard & Poor’s in their fund rating business. Sam holds the CFA charter, IMC and Series 7, 24, 62 and 79 designations in addition to an MA (Oxon) in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.


More insights from the team:

The growing appeal of semi-liquid private market vehicles represents a significant shift in how institutional investors approach illiquid asset classes.

The question of how to integrate private market investments into strategic asset allocation models represents one of the most significant and sensitive issues that allocators face today. This report...

Liquidity-friendly vehicles for illiquid asset classes are on the rise. In order to avoid potential pitfalls, however, it is crucial to interrogate asset managers’ approaches. As part of our...

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...

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...

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

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...

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,...