Stockholm (HedgeNordic) -At HedgeNordic, it has become a much-treasured tradition to close the year with a roundtable discussion among systematic macro and CTA managers spiced up with some local allocators. This year, for the first me, we invited our guests not to Stockholm, but to Finland ́s capitol, Helsinki. The city was preparing for the climax to the celebrations for[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is listing a bitcoin futures contract on December 18, after having received approval from the regulatory body CFTC, according to a press release. The new contract will be listed on and subject to the rules of CME. The contract will be available for trading on the CME Globex electronic trading platform, and[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In what was a challenging year for the CTA industry overall, there were some funds clearly standing out from the crowd, significantly outperforming industry benchmarks. In the Nordic hedge fund space, both funds from IPM; Systematic Macro and Systematic Currency, had a stellar year with gains of 7.4% and 9.5% respectively which compares favourably to the NHX CTA[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Yesterday, April 26th 2017 the best Nordic hedge funds were distinguished for their performance during 2016 at the Nordic Hedge Award. It was the fifth year HedgeNordic in collaboration with the Stockholm School of Economics and Swedish House of Finance and support of a jury board determined this ranking. The winners of the 2016 Nordic Hedge Awards[Read More…]
Ernest Jaffarian is a 30 years veteran within the alternative investment industry. He started his career as a floor trader in 1986 and quickly become a lead market maker. In 1993 he co-founded a CTA and in 1999 he set up Efficient Capital Management, a pioneer in the Managed Futures space. Thirty years ago Ernest believed the day would come[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The winners of the 2015 Nordic Hedge Award were presented their trophies during an evening event on April 27th in Stockholm. Winners were determined in a two step process. Out of the 152 funds in the defined universe the top five funds per category were shortlisted using a model co-developped by Nordic Business Media and a PhD[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeNordic.com) – iSTOXX® Efficient Capital® Managed Futures 20 Index var ned 2.01% i januari. Long term och global macro förvaltare hade en svår månad och var ned 4.36% respektive 1.26%. Efter en räcka negativa månader var FX förvaltare upp 2.18% medan short term förvaltare fortsatte den senaste tidens positiva trend och slutade månaden upp 1.43%. Året inleddes med skarpa trendbrott i de[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeFonder.nu) – iSTOXX Efficient Capital Managed Futures 20 Index var ner 0.69% i juli. FX-program hade det kämpigt och slutade med en nedgång på 3.03%. Både långsiktiga och kortsiktiga strategier hade svårt att hitta lämpliga affärstillfällen och tappade 0.58% respektive 0.19%. Global makro-förvaltare bidrog i viss mån till uppgången, med +0.20%. Förändrade förväntningar och spekulationer bland investerare om tidpunkten för[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeFonder.nu) – Warren Capital och Capricorn blev vinnare av Hedgeaward’s CTA kategori. I fallet Warren blev det dubbel bragd då förvaltaren vann såväl första som tredje pris (Warren Short Term och Warren Fourth Moment Macro). HedgeFonder.nu passade på att ställa fem frågor till till förvaltarna bakom respektive fond. 1. Vad anser du gör er strategi utmärkande? Peter Warren – Warren Capital: Det är viktigt[Read More…]
Stockhholm (HedgeFonder.nu) – The winners of the 2012 Nordic Hedge Award were presented their trophies during an evening event on April 24th in Stockholm. Winners were determined in a two step process. Out of the 130 funds in the defined universe the top five funds per category were shortlisted using a model co-developped by Nordic Business Media and a PhD[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeFonder.nu) – The shortlist of funds nominated for the first Nordic Hedge Award showed a mix of some well known names of “the usual suspects” but also several surprises. Five funds were shortlisted in each of the seven categories based on a quantative model co-developed by Nordic Business Media and Stockholm School of Economics on data drawn from the[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeFonder.nu) – Efficient Capital Management, en leverantör av multi-manager Managed Futures-portföljer baserad i Warrenville nära Chicago i USA, har blivit utvald som analyspartner för den nyligen lanserade iSTOXX Efficient Capital Managed Futures 20 Index. Detta nya Managed Futures Index kommer att reflektera 20 av världens största Commodity Trading Advisors (“CTA”) baserad på såväl kapital under förvaltning som ytterligare regelbaserade[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeFonder.nu) – Efficient Capital is a rare breed of a diversified manager that exclusively invests into managed futures / CTA and offers its investors what is in effect a fund of fund of CTA. Set up in 1999 in Warrenville, Illinois just outside Chicago, the manager currently manages around two billion Dollars. Efficient has a stringent investment process which[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeFonder.nu) – När vi nu kan lägga året 2011 till handlingarna, kan vi se tillbaka på ett avkastningsmässigt utmanande år inom alla tillgångsklasser. Makroekonomiska händelser dominerade mycket av nyhetsflödet, bland annat jordbävningen och tsunamin i Japan, revolutionerna i den arabiska världen och självfallet påfrestningen som kommit från den höga skuldsättningen bland stater, i såväl USA som Euro-länderna, samt centralbankernas[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeFonder.nu) – Vi bad aktörer inom CTA/Managed futures-världen att ge oss sina synpunkter på 2011 i generella termer för CTA/Managed futures-industrin i allmänhet och deras egna tradingstrategier i synnerhet. Redaktionen på HedgeFonder.nu formulerade medvetet inbjudan i tämligen vaga och ospecifika termer för att ge en så diversifierad bild av industrin som möjligt. Vi bad dem också att göra en[Read More…]
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Nordic hedge funds as a group suffered losses in a volatile month of March, with equity-focused funds suffering the most due to increasing fears of a global trade war. Nordic hedge funds, as expressed by the Nordic Hedge Index (NHX), were down 0.6 percent in March (91 percent reported), taking the first-quarter losses to 1.2 percent. Four[Read More…]
