Multi Asset: Global
Private Markets & Alternatives
BCA Research’s Private Markets & Alternatives service provides empirical analysis and practitioner advice across the most opaque of all asset classes to improve clients’ portfolio construction and management decisions.
Our competitive advantage
- Runs comprehensive and unbiased data analysis and establishes forward-looking expectations across the entire spectrum of private markets & alternatives — Private Equity, Private Credit, Hedge Funds and Real Estate.
- Provides prescriptive, actionable advice from a practitioner’s perspective. “Where should the marginal dollar go?”
- Offers outlooks and projections for each sub-asset class and asset class through the combination of top-down and bottom-up analysis.
- Weighs opportunity costs within and across asset classes to provide a holistic assessment to portfolio managers.
“Our approach to private markets and alternatives is unbiased, comprehensive, predictive and portfolio management-focused. We understand how heterogeneous these markets are and how important it is to distill and provide analysis from a practitioner standpoint.”
Brian Payne Chief Strategist,
Private Markets & Alternatives
Coverage
- Geographies: North America, Europe, Asia, Rest of World
- Private Equity: Venture Capital, Buyout, Growth Equity
Stage: Seed, Early Stage, Late Stage
Size: Mega, Large, Mid, Small
Theme: Financial Services, Cyclical, Healthcare, Intangible Assets, Emerging Markets, Multi-Business, User- & Subscriber-Based
- Private Credit: Senior, Mezzanine, Distressed & Special Situations
Size: Upper, Middle, Lower Markets
Strategy: Direct Lending, Asset-Based Lending, Specialty Finance, Infrastructure Lending, Niche Strategies
- Hedge Funds: Directional/Equity-replacements, Diversifier/Absolute Return/FI-replacements, Hedge/Downside-focused
Strategy: Long-Short Equity, Activists, Event Driven, Market Neutral, Macro, Relative Value, Quant, Multi-Strategies, CTAs, Alt Risk Premia, Long Vol, Tail Risk
- Real Estate: Core/Core+, Value Added, Opportunistic
Sector: Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Office, Retail, Special Purpose, Real Assets, Infrastructure
Quality: A, B, C
Challenge your investment conviction with insights from Private Markets & Alternatives
Deliverables
- Quarterly and Special Reports: Unconstrained, extensive, unbiased data analyses and outlooks, with actionable portfolio management advice
- Webcasts and Podcasts: Topical sessions that cover the opportunity set
- 1:1 Client Meetings and Calls: Interactive sessions with the Chief Strategist
- Annual CMA/CAPM outputs and potentially bespoke modeling
Private Markets & Alternatives
Brian Payne
Chief Strategist
Brian is BCA Research’s Chief Strategist, Private Markets & Alternatives. Prior to BCA Research, he was an Investment Officer of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Illinois, where he restructured and oversaw a $5+ billion multi-asset portfolio consisting of hedge funds, private investments, and opportunistic strategies. Prior to Illinois, he was a buy-side researcher and trader at Potomac River Capital. Brian began his career in wealth management, where he researched and advised RIAs on alternative investments and asset allocation. He has a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. He is also a CFA and CAIA charter holder.

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