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Julien Barral
Senior Directeur, Private Markets
Julien is een Senior Director binnen het Private Markets team, gespecialiseerd in Private Equity en Real Estate. Voordat Julien in november 2020 terugkeerde naar bfinance, was hij Managing Director van GS Invest, een investeringsboetiek in onroerend goed gevestigd in Londen. In deze rol was hij verantwoordelijk voor de strategische planning, evaluatie en implementatie van zakelijke kansen. Julien beheerde en coördineerde ook de dagelijkse activiteiten en was verantwoordelijk voor de uitvoering van de bedrijfsstrategie op lange termijn. Voordat hij bij GS Invest in dienst trad, werkte hij 11 jaar bij bfinance, waar hij onder meer senior equity manager researcher en hoofd van het analistenteam was. Hij heeft ook gewerkt bij Fortis Banque Monaco. Julien heeft een eersteklas BSc in Toegepaste Wiskunde van de Sophia Antipolis - Universiteit van Nice, een Master in Finance van de Edhec Business School en is co-auteur van een aantal artikelen over Smart Beta.
More insights from the team:
Private credit and the asset allocation challenge
Increasingly, asset allocation models are treating Private Credit as a strategic asset class with its own clearly defined profile, rather than an implementation solution within a fixed income or...
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M&A activity, such as the recent news of the combination of the Columbia Threadneedle and PATRIZIA UK property funds fits a neat narrative.
Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - August 2026
bfinance's quarterly report for August 2026: read the team's latest insights on institutional investor activity, risk appetite, market developments and asset manager performance across all major...
Investor Spotlight: PGB - can impact investing become the default setting for private markets portfolios?
While many asset owners continue to debate the role of impact investing, Pensioenfonds PGB has already made its choice. The Dutch pension fund has decided that new private markets investments should...
Investment Management Fees: Pricing pressure in the turbulent twenties
The latest instalment in the bfinance Fee and Cost Insight series highlights recent price pressures in both private and public markets as the turbulent twenties change the competitive landscape.
Infographic: private capital and German ‘place-based investing’
Governments are seeking to turn investors' attention closer to home in pursuit of resilience – Germany is at the forefront of efforts to redirect private capital.
bfinance poll: investors gain edge in private market fees
Disappointing distributions, weak returns and a softer fundraising climate now appear to be putting real pricing power in investors’ hands. That is a key finding of the bfinance Private Market Fees...
Secondaries under scrutiny: layer cake or traffic jam?
Private market secondaries are booming – but are they creating a welcome 'layer cake' of liquidity solutions, or a 'traffic jam' that postpones real exits? We explored this question in bfinance's...
