Endowments and Foundations

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Endowment & Foundation Investment Survey

Endowment and Foundation Investment Survey

61 senior endowment, foundation and charity/nonprofit investors across 16 countries contributed data and insights for this global study.

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Putting innovation into practice

Historically, endowments and foundations have been viewed as ‘ahead of the curve’ on a number of themes—such as the use of private equity and other alternative investment strategies. The combination of a long-term investment horizon, relative regulatory freedom and innovation-friendly governance structures continues to be a powerful one.

Today, we continue to see foundation and endowment investors seeking to advance and enhance portfolios with new developments—such as exploring esoteric investment strategies that have not yet reached the institutional mainstream, driving ‘impact investment’ product development and uncovering unfamiliar/emerging managers.

Supporting the needs of foundations and endowments

Endowments and foundations represent a very significant proportion of bfinance’s client base (>10%). Acting as an extension of their teams, we offer flexible support in a range of areas. The most popular service for these investors during recent years has been manager research and selection: the bfinance process has helped these clients to research strategies, acquire market knowledge and uncover a broad range of solutions.

Other key services for our endowment and foundation clients include strategic portfolio design / strategic asset allocation, fee reviews, risk analytics, ESG advisory and operational due diligence. The majority of endowment/foundation clients have appointed bfinance to provide targeted support on a project basis (e.g. 8-12 weeks); long-term support is also available.

Latest case studies

Saudi & GCC Shariah Equity

This Saudi Arabian Endowment was seeking to make further allocations to Shariah-compliant local...

US Small & SMID Cap Equity

This Nordic endowment was seeking to add active equity exposure in US small or small-mid cap for a...

Biodiversity Equity

The asset owner sought a biodiversity focused fund to align its investment strategy with...

CMA and SAA Support

A Middle Eastern endowment engaged bfinance to assist in refining its Shariah-compliant Strategic...

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What our clients say

One of the key reasons we use bfinance is their analysis; the amount of analysis that was done on the submissions was really top notch.

Foundation, North America

bfinance will provide the solutions. They will hear the problem and they’ll set up the solution. They’ve done that repeatedly on different topics.

Endowment, Asia Pacific

The good thing about bfinance is that they do not have a preference. They are not pushing one manager over the other. They will find the best manager for you. It is an unbiased recommendation.

Foundation, US

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