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INVESTOR SURVEY REPORT
Snap Poll: What are investors thinking now?
Institutional investors around the globe shared how they are responding to pressing geopolitical and macroeconomic developments. With 418 investors from 39 countries taking place at the end of the first quarter of 2022, the findings reveal significant shifts underway.
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Award-winning investment consultancy firm with a global reach
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bfinance works for asset owners around the globe to support all aspects of investment activity, from portfolio design and fund manager selection to fee benchmarking and performance monitoring.
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Established in 1999, bfinance has worked for more than 450 institutional clients across 43 countries, operating out of ten international offices. The firm has been recognised with numerous industry awards for innovation and investment consultancy.
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WHITEPAPER
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 asset classes.
ARTICLE
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 introduce dedicated exposure to this asset class can face significant implementation challenges.
ARTICLE
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 reserve funds, with more than SEK 460 billion (USD 47 billion) in assets. “We should push the industry, not only to help our own fund,” he observes, “but to benefit other investors: smaller investors, for example, who do not have the capacity to push for change.
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Implementation in focus
Private Credit – Trade Finance
The client, a Bermuda-based reinsurance company, engaged bfinance to conduct a comprehensive review of global trade finance managers—including those with strategies focused on receivables or supply chain finance—with the goal of investing at least EUR 200 million (and possibly as much as EUR 600 mil...
Strategic Portfolio Design, Equities
This pension plan was seeking to re-evaluate their equity portfolio and engaged bfinance after their retained consultant was unable to provide appropriate support. bfinance had previously aided this client with an ad hoc manager selection project (US Value ESG).
Operational Due Diligence, US Equity
The investor, a Dutch corporate pension scheme, was seeking outside support to review the operating environments of four finalist managers for two US equity mandates.
Fund Hosting Platform for Public Markets
An Asian government fund was significantly expanding its international equity allocation and sought support with manager selection, as well as the implementation of an external fund hosting solution to facilitate effective management and oversight of the US$ 4 billion equity portfolio. This case stu...
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