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Investors' costs have never been more vigilantly scrutinised than they are today. New bfinance data published in investment Management Fees: New Savings, New Challenges (May 2017) reveals falling fees in several sectors, especially where providers have been under pressure from cheaper competitors or the investment landscape has evolved.
Read more: Fund of Hedge Funds Cut Fees to Regain Lost Ground
Unitranche debt / loans, which increasingly dominate European private debt funds and also play a key role in the US market, were only invented a decade ago. GE and Allied Capital (later Ares) teamed up to offer a single-tranche of lending where the first-out position was provided by GE and the second-out by Allied. The borrower received one set of pricing and one loan agreement: for them it was more expensive but simpler and, importantly, enabled greater leverage
Throughout 2016, innovative ESG-focused pension funds have sought ways to integrate sustainability factors in asset classes where these considerations are not necessarily mainstream.
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