Highlights

• bfinance global property poll: UK leads recovery with office space lagging in 2010, Germany ahead of France
• New! The bfinance Fund Managers Investment Strategy and Asset Classes Consensus Forecasts - Fund Managers plan to increase exposure to risky assets
• UK’s €5bn Church endowment reduced property investments before downturn
• bfinance bi-annual pension fund survey: real estate to benefit from allocation shift out of bonds into alternatives
• bfinance global hedge fund survey: alternative manager fee structure to survive downward client pressure
• bfinance global survey: pension funds have more favourable view on fees as they shift in favour of active strategies
• bfinance mandates: equity re-takes lead, jumping ahead of fixed-income and alternative briefs