• Liquid Alternatives Portfolio Review

    This client, a German insurance company, sought bfinance’s assistance to conduct a review of its conservatively invested liquid alternatives portfolio, which deployed assets in low net exposure and market neutral strategies.

  • Portfolio Solutions – Fee Review

    This Australian asset owner engaged bfinance to provide a value-for-money assessment on a large, diversified portfolio of assets worth more than AUD100 billion.

  • Portfolio Solutions – Fee Review (Competitive assessment and fee negotiation)

    This client, a Dutch private pension scheme, asked bfinance to partner with its in-house investment team to assess the fees paid to its external asset managers and negotiate lower rates.

  • Portfolio Solutions – Private Pension Fee Review

    This client, an Australian pension scheme, sought assistance to conduct a full value-for-money review of the management fees it was paying for investment services.

  • Strategic Asset Allocation and Whole-portfolio Design Review

    The trustees of a Middle Eastern family office enlisted bfinance’s help to review the internal investment team’s approach to managing assets—the client wanted an independent assessment of the appropriateness of the internal team’s

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  • Risk Management Framework

    This Middle Eastern family office engaged bfinance to design an inaugural risk-management framework for its USD 1.2 billion portfolio and, subsequently, to help implement the new structure.

  • Fee review, tailored benchmarking

    This investor engaged bfinance to benchmark the fees paid to their external investment managers. As part of the value-for-money analysis, bfinance created tailored benchmarks for each manager.

  • Sharia-compliant Strategic Asset Allocation

    A Saudi Arabian endowment sought to revamp its investment policy statement to reflect its evolving financial goals—and then develop a Shariah-compliant strategic asset allocation (SAA), accompanied by a multi-year deployment plan, to

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  • Due Diligence, US Direct Lending

    A UK local government investor appointed bfinance to conduct due diligence before seeding a new fund being launched by one of is incumbent managers. The strategy was the manager’s first fund dedicated purely to US Corporate Senior

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