About BHA’s Investor Research
Forging productive investment partnerships from among the thousands of available alternative investment opportunities has never been an easy task. Investors often find themselves caught between two extremes – they are swamped with unwanted solicitations from funds whose characteristics are of no interest to them – or the search process is extremely time-intensive, and results in a unsatisfactory peer group for review.
Our goal at Brighton House Associates is to make the alternative marketplace more efficient. Through detailed and precise investor research, we are hoping to reduce the amount of “noise” and wasted effort in the alternatives marketplace. The attention given to each investor regarding their manager and strategy preferences all the way to their liquidity requirements allows BHA to ultimately understand exactly what the investor is looking for in an alternative investment. The investors mandate is then carefully analyzed against BHA’s client base of fund managers to see if there is an EXACT fit between both parties. Our number one goal is to make manager searches a more efficient process, and we achieve that by ensuring that our investors only receive accurate and qualified manager matches for their searches. For these services there is no cost to the investor. Our fund manager clients bear the cost of our research efforts in the form of a flat-fee. There are no hidden charges or commission payments for our services.
Our Network
Our clients range from some of the most recognizable names in the alternatives industry, all the way to emerging managers using new and esoteric strategies. 25% of our clients are emerging managers, 50% of our clients have assets of $200M to $800M and the final 25% are clients with assets over $1Bn. Our current client base represents over 120 unique hedge fund strategies and our managers are located in more than 12 countries around the world. Our strength lies in our manager’s broad diversity of strategies, fund sizes, and pedigree. Every investor seeks to balance their portfolio in a unique way, and we try to offer access to the widest possible range of options. (These include but are not limited to hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and related funds of funds, as well as structured products with underlying alternatives.)
Investor types we work with:
- Endowments
- Foundations
- Fund of Funds
- Foreign Institutions
- Private Banks
- Consultants
- US Wealth Advisors
- Non US Wealth Advisors
- Corporations
Benefits
While there are many hedge fund and private equity data services, they are most commonly based on the reporting of funds that happen to opt-in to that system. Discovering new funds, strategies, and emerging managers remains a difficult and time consuming process.
Investors who keep an updated alternative investment profile with Brighton House are sending a clear signal to the marketplace about which types of strategies they are interested in and which they are not. That adds up to more time spent on the exploration and due diligence of funds that you might actually invest with, and less time spent sorting through the innumerable offerings that don’t pertain to your investment approach.
Take a moment to speak with a Brighton House analyst about your alternative investment preferences today. Once you have established a profile, we will be in touch periodically to keep your mandates updated and working on your behalf.
- Free targeted RFP distribution
- Assistance with peer group development during strategy searches
- Avoid solicitations outside your searches and mandates
- Compliment your existing network
- Discover emerging managers
Frequently Asked Questions
Who are your clients?
Our clients range from some of the most recognizable names in the alternatives industry, all the way to emerging managers using new and esoteric strategies. 25% of our clients are emerging managers, 50% of our clients have assets of $200M to $800M and the final 25% are clients with assets over $1Bn. Our current client base represents over 120 unique hedge fund strategies and our managers are located in more than 12 countries around the world. Our strength lies in our manager’s broad diversity of styles, approaches and fund sizes. Every investor seeks to balance their portfolio in a unique way, and we try to offer access to the widest possible range of options. (These include but are not limited to hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and related funds of funds, as well as structured products with underlying alternatives.)
Are you a third-party marketing firm?
No, we are not a third-party marketing firm. We don’t ever suggest funds to investors, introduce client information and we don’t get compensated for any allocations investors choose to make. We remain a neutral party and focused on our investor research.
How do you get paid?
We get paid a flat annual data service fee by each of our fund manager clients for our services. These services include research and data on both institutional and private investors and investment trends in the alternatives industry. Fund manager clients pay Brighton House to get access to investor’s data which helps them efficiently target their marketing efforts by spending time speaking to investors that are currently searching for their fund strategy.
I have all the contacts I need. How could you possibly help me?
With an estimated 10,000+ fund managers operating in everything from long/short US equity, all the way to frontier market private equity and art investment strategies, nobody can keep up with the pace of innovation alone. Many of the best opportunities in alternatives don’t last long and the best managers can close new funds so quickly you may never even know they opened. Brighton House can help you supplement you current network with ours, and we can cover twice the ground together.
Do you provide investment advice or due diligence services?
In order to avoid conflicts of interest, we don’t provide either advisory services or due diligence. It would be unfair to our community of investors, and unfair to our clients.
How do I establish my firm’s alternatives mandate profile?
The simplest way to establish your firm’s profile is to call one of our analysts. They will be happy to speak with you in detail about your firm’s alternatives interests.
Call us anytime from 8:00 – 6:00 EST, (866) 460-6462
If you would prefer, you can also submit your profile online using our web form
Research & Positioning
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