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Securitised Credit - Sector in Brief
Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - November 2020
Secondaries Surge: Four Questions for Private Market Investors
Real Estate Upheaval Puts Manager Discipline in the Spotlight
Benchmarking Alternative Risk Premia
Investors Eye Trade Finance amid COVID Storm as Banks Ship Out
The Rise of Fixed Income Factor Investing
Mid-year Review Five Findings on Manager Performance
Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - August 2020
Asset Owner Survey: Managing through Uncertainty
Testing Times for Infrastructure Investment Resilience
Rethinking China’s Role in Emerging Market Equity Portfolios
The Rise of Listed Infrastructure and REITs
The past decade has seen dramatic growth in the listed infrastructure sector, as well as the emergence of hybrid strategies that combine listed infrastructure with REITs. This paper draws on the latest manager research to explore key issues for investors.
Investor Spotlight: Italian Pension Fund Cuts Hidd...
With investors honing in on the potential for greater operational efficiency, external fund hosting services are becoming increasingly popular, with a diverse range of banks, asset managers and platform providers getting in on the act.
Do Listed Infrastructure and REITs Work Better Tog...
Amid the recent rise of Listed Infrastructure and REITs, one particularly notable change is the emergence of strategies that incorporate both of these strategies within one offering.
Direct Lending: to Cycle or Not to Cycle?
The start of 2020 has brought a slew of commentary on cooling appetite for direct lending, with the release of data showing a second year-on-year decline in private debt fundraising.
DNA of a Manager Search: Real Estate Debt
Today, investors in many illiquid asset classes are seeking subsectors and asset managers that can defy the overall yield compression of the last five years.
Manager Intelligence and Market Trends - January 2...
bfinance’s quarterly report in January 2020: read the team’s latest insights on institutional investor activity, risk appetite, market developments and asset manager performance across all major asset classes.
Real Asset Debt: Lessons from Manager Selection
With a wave of pension and insurance investors entering real estate debt or infrastructure debt for the first time, three “DNA of a Manager Search” case studies provide practical insights into an increasingly diverse and rapidly evolving sector.
How Can Trustees Ensure Value for Money?
How can pension fund trustees provide effective governance on the subject of cost? Ensuring value for money is central to fulfilling fiduciary duty. Yet this remains a challenging and opaque subject, where overly simplistic comparisons and metrics can do more harm than good.
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