• Shariah-compliant Private Income Strategies

    The client, a leading Middle Eastern asset manager, was planning to launch a new fund with the aim of providing investors with a diversified portfolio of income-generating assets.

  • Private Credit – Trade Finance

    The client, a Bermuda-based reinsurance company, engaged bfinance to conduct a comprehensive review of global trade finance managers—including those with strategies focused on receivables or supply chain finance—with the goal of

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  • ESG/Impact Maritime Leasing

    The client, a UK endowment fund with strong environmental, social and governance (ESG) credentials, was looking to further diversify its existing infrastructure programme. The endowment’s investment team had identified maritime leasing

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  • Diversified Private Markets

    An Asian institutional investor was seeking to invest US$200 million in a segregated mandate which provided diversified exposure across a range of private markets strategies and assets, including: private equity (>30%), infrastructure

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  • Due Diligence, US Direct Lending

    A UK local government investor appointed bfinance to conduct due diligence before seeding a new fund being launched by one of is incumbent managers. The strategy was the manager’s first fund dedicated purely to US Corporate Senior

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  • European Private Debt

    In seeking to make their first ever allocation to private debt, this Italian pension plan was keen to cast a wide net in order to achieve returns of 5-8% net of fees.

  • Infrastructure debt

    A UK corporate pension plan was seeking to invest £200 million in infrastructure debt in the UK/Europe, using one or multiple managers. Both pooled funds and SMAs were considered, with an absolute return target of

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  • Direct Lending

    A Canadian foundation with existing exposure to the infrastructure sector sought an unlisted North American infThis Canadian public pension plan was seeking to redeploy capital being returned from previous private debt investments

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