Bundesverband Alternative Investments e.V. (BAI)

In our final part on the Investor Survey 2023, we take a look at what criteria investors use to select their asset managers and how they what they think of "mega managers" and "first-time managers".

In our second part, we take a closer look at asset allocation and where capital has been channelled compared to the INvestor Survey 2022.

The BAI has once again published its Investor Survey. In a short video series, we would like to summarise the core results briefly and concisely. The first part starts with an assessment of what is currently driving the industry.

Im Bereich der Alternative Investments werden Venture Capital (VC) Investments unter der Assetklasse Corporate Private Equity subsumiert. Im deutschsprachigen Raum werden häufig die mit Venture Capital bedeutungsgleichen Begriffe Wagniskapital oder Risikokapital verwendet. Aber welche Gründe gibt es solch ein Investment zu tätigen und wer investiert in dieser Form?

Das klären wir in diesem Video!

Investments in Infrastrukturprojekte weisen vielfältige und unterschiedliche Charakteristika auf. Auf diese wollen wir in diesem kurzen Video eingehen und klären, wie sich Infrastrukturinvestments unterscheiden lassen, wer in Infrastruktur investiert und wieso.

Private Debt gehört zu den populärsten alternative Investments. Aber was ist Private Debt genau, wer investiert in Private Debt, wieso investiert man in Private Debt und welche Investmentstrategien gibt es? All das klären wir in diesem Video.

The GPs interviewed comment on the currently prevailing issues from the macroeconomic environment and express their expectations for the future.

An analysis of the expected development of private equity and debt for the 2023.

An analysis of the expected development of the other alternative asset classes for 2023.

An analysis about what distinguishes GPs and LPs in Terms of ESG investing in 2023.

From the BAI's latest analyses, three clear beneficiaries of the current phase of high inflation and rising key interest rates emerge. However, there are a few things to keep in mind. We look at the reasons why these three asset classes, of all things, are doing so well and highlight the dangers that could accompany them.

Despite all the adversities that 2022 had in store for the financial markets, alternative investments seem to be more stable than their traditional counterparts. Let's take a look at the question: Why is that? Please also read our article "Alternative Investments remain robust - despite competition from rising bond yields".

If you could describe the private markets of 2022 in just one word, it would probably be "ESG". Sustainable finance is not just a new trend, but a new investment lifestyle. 
In our annual investor survey, we asked German and European institutional investors and asset managers what they think about ESG. Why do they pursue an ESG strategy or why don't they pursue it.  

The year 2022 is plagued with many crises: the war in Ukraine, high inflation, energy shortages and climate change. Enormous upheavals are taking place in our society. We asked our members how their portfolio and their SAA will change under these circumstances, or if there will be a change at all. We have summarised our results in a short video.

In our last video regarding our Investor Survey 2022, we wanted to take a closer look at three special types of investors: Insurers, pension funds and pension funds. What makes them different from the average investor and why? The results were quite surprising!