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Umang Rajbhandari
Directeur, Private Markets
Umang is directeur binnen het Private Markets-team bij bfinance, met een focus op Private Debt. Hij heeft meer dan 11 jaar ervaring in het adviseren van institutionele beleggers, met een bijzondere specialisatie in private markets en alternatieve beleggingen.
Voordat hij bij bfinance in dienst trad, bekleedde Umang een leidinggevende functie bij Barnett Waddingham als beleggingsadviseur en hoofd Alternatief Onderzoek, waar hij leiding gaf aan onderzoek en strategie op het gebied van private markets en ondersteuning bood bij de dienstverlening aan klanten. Eerder in zijn carrière werkte hij bij Willis Towers Watson, waar hij institutionele klanten ondersteunde op het gebied van financiering en beleggingsstrategie. Hij begon zijn carrière bij OCBC, waar hij bijdroeg aan toezicht op regelgeving en risicomonitoring.
Umang is Fellow van het Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, is Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) en heeft het CFA-certificaat in particuliere markten en alternatieve beleggingen behaald.
Meer inzichten van het 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...
bfinance Platform: real assets, UK open-ended property funds in five charts
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...
