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From Laggards to Leaders? Hedge Funds Slowly Embrace ESG
Hedge fund managers have long defied the asset management industry’s drive toward greater consideration of ESG-related investment factors, but investors’ shifting priorities are sparking
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Renewable Energy Infrastructure: Lessons from Manager Selection
The renewable energy infrastructure landscape is evolving rapidly, as are asset managers’ strategies. This paper illustrates key developments, including case studies of recent manager
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Nordic and Dutch Investors Drive Impact Innovations
Nordic and Dutch investors are shifting the ESG agenda decisively towards ‘impact’ – whether that takes the form of measuring non-financial portfolio outcomes ex post or targeting social and
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ESG Asset Owner Survey: How Are Investors Changing?
How are investors’ ESG priorities and practices changing? We surveyed 256 asset owners around the globe with assets in excess of US$7 trillion to discover which approaches they now use and
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Small Cap: Old Questions, New Answers
Investors are demonstrating appetite for small cap equity strategies late in the market cycle. Yet the motivations for seeking small cap are evolving and the product universe has changed.
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Digging into Diversity Part 1: Infrastructure Managers
With diversity becoming an increasingly visible priority for investors, how do asset managers measure up? In this article we take a closer look at infrastructure managers, where recent searches
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Secondaries Surge: Four Questions for Private Market Investors
With crisis conditions historically proving beneficial for new private equity secondaries funds, 2020 has seen a surge in fundraising and fund launches. Yet there are problematic questions for
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Mid-year Review: Five Findings on Manager Performance
In Late-July 2020, bfinance clients and other investors joined the research team (virtually, of course!) for a recap of active manager performance, portfolio positioning and investor activity in
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Storebrand’s ESG Journey from Exclusions to Solutions
When Storebrand first established a sustainable investment team in the mid-1990s, ESG investing still represented largely uncharted territory, with little external data available.
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Active Equity Management: A Question of Style?
Recent bfinance reports highlight the extent to which style factors have driven equity returns through the COVID-19 crisis, with value materially underperforming at one end and quality delivering
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How Are Asset Managers Performing? Q1 Review – Key Takeaways
On April 22nd, more than 300 investors around the globe joined the bfinance research team (virtually) for a session dissecting manager performance through the crisis so far.
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Impact Real Estate - Sector in Brief
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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Green Bonds - Sector in Brief
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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Top Reads of 2019
Which bfinance papers and articles received the highest number of views and downloads in 2019?
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Investing in Renewables: Navigating the Transition
Once a small niche of the infrastructure asset class, renewable energy investing has exploded in size and maturity with a universe of over 50 managers offering strategies dedicated to the
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Does Japan’s ESG Trend Go Beyond the “G”?
“ESG” certainly wasn’t a buzzword in Japan five years ago. While a recent surge in responsible investment news from the country has raised the profile of this issue, we wondered: are the
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DNA of a Manager Search: Infrastructure
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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Emerging Market Debt: to Blend or Not to Blend?
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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New Equity Perspectives
The latest bfinance data reveals major changes in institutional investors’ equity mandates through 2017. This collection of articles explores the most significant shifts and addresses key debates
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Is ESG Compatible with Passive Management?
We were recently invited by FT’s Pensions Expert to provide an article debating the potentially thorny question: Is ESG Compatible with the Rise of Passive Management? This brainteaser was born
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