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Taiga’s Long/Short Playbook for Nordic Small Caps

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A first-time investor looking at the roughly 6 percent cumulative return from Nordic equities over the past two years could be forgiven for looking...

Simplicity Completes Norron Deal

R2 Crystal Finds Room to Grow in a Diversified Hedge Fund Model

Protean Hires Sell-Side Analyst for Long/Short Strategy

How CABA Capital Is Navigating the New Operational Demands

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In-Depth: Small- and Mid-Cap Stocks

Europe’s Sovereignty Push Could Benefit Small & Mid-Caps

European small and mid-cap equities are entering a potentially...

Taiga’s Long/Short Playbook for Nordic Small Caps

A first-time investor looking at the roughly 6 percent...

AI Has Changed the Small-Cap Equation

The AI-driven rally in mega-cap stocks has widened the...

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In-Depth: Active and Alternative ETFs

How CLO ETFs Are Expanding Institutional Access to Alternative Credit

ETFs have become an increasingly versatile tool in institutional...

Diversification is Easy to Buy, Hard to Get: The Liquid Alternatives Test

By Luc Dumontier, CIO Global Asset Management, iM Global...

Active and Alternative ETFs Gain Ground as Market Splits Between Cost and Value

The ETF market is entering a new phase in...

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Alternative ETFs

Unlocking a Third Active Lever

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By Steven Braun at Newfound Research and Return Stacked®...
Alternative ETFs

Beyond Passive: How Institutional Investors Are Reshaping Europe’s ETF Market

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Flows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to show little...
Alternative ETFs

Tracking Trend: A Closer Look at Managed Futures Index Replication

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By Kathryn M. Kaminski and Yingshan Zhao at AlphaSimplex...
Alternative ETFs

Active Decisions in Passive Wrappers: Othania on ETF Innovation

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Founded in early 2016 by brothers Vincent Dilling-Larsen and...

In-Depth: Multi-Strategy Investing

Tidan Builds Multi-Strategy Platform Around Diversified Alpha Engines

What began as a natural evolution of Tidan Capital’s...

HSBC’s Three Decades of Building Hedge Fund Portfolios

Hedge fund investing has become increasingly institutionalized and resource-intensive,...

The Benefits of Multi-Manager Portfolios in CTA Investing

At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous....

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Multi-Strategy

Systematic Multi-Strategy as a Portfolio Diversifier

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By Fredrik Langenskiöld – Union Bancaire Privée: Multi-strategy funds...
Multi-Strategy

Allocators Seek Sharpe, Not Spectacle When Opting for Multi Managers

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Global allocators are once again paying closer attention to...
Multi-Strategy

OP’s R2 Crystal Sees Stronger Case for Hedge Funds

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For much of the past decade, hedge funds struggled...

In-Depth: CTA ETFs

Two Allocators, One View: Liquidity, Cost and Control Behind CTA ETF Adoption

On the surface, Morten Christensen, Chief Financial Officer at...

Maybe CTA Alpha is Simpler Than You Think: Evidence from the ETF Space

By Andrew Beer, Co-Founder of DBi: Managers of CTA hedge funds...

Othania Positions Trend-Following at the Core of Multi-Asset Portfolios

Not many investors in the Nordics explicitly allocate to...

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CTA ETFs

Build Your Index

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By Harold de Boer, Managing Director and Head of...
CTA ETFs

Stop Making Room for Managed Futures

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By Corey Hoffstein, Co-Founder, CEO and CIO at Newfound...
CTA ETFs

Muddling Through the Mess: Managed Futures ETFs

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By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk...
CTA ETFs

There Can Only Be One

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By Linus Nilsson of NilssonHedge: In the beginning, CTAs...

In-Depth: High Yield

Ridge Capital’s Mantra: “Never Lose Money”

Nordic high-yield-focused fund Ridge Capital Northern Yield has emerged...

PIMCO: Similar Yields, Better Risk Profile in European High Yield

The U.S. high yield market has long been regarded...

Avoiding the Echo Chamber: Kraft’s Playbook in Tighter High-Yield Market

Delivering strong returns during a market rebound is one...

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Allocator Interviews

Folketrygdfondet on Nordic High Yield: More Global, but Is It More Resilient?

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While Norway’s global sovereign wealth giant, the Government Pension...
High Yield

High-Yield Bonds Knock Out Stocks

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Nordic high-yield bonds and the managers specializing in them...
High Yield

Benchmark-Plus High-Yield Investing at LD Pensions

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Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Danish pension fund LD Pensions manages...

In-Depth: Emerging Markets

Veritas Looks Beyond Benchmarks to Frontier Markets for Carry

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After several years of strong performance in fixed income,...

The Emerging Markets Revival and the Case for Systematic, Diversified Exposure

Emerging market equities outperformed developed markets in 2025 for...

Emerging Markets Back in Focus, but Still a Satellite Allocation at Folksam

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Emerging markets have spent much of the past decade...

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Emerging Markets

AP2 Extends Systematic Approach to Emerging Markets Bonds

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Systematic investing has become a widely embraced approach in...
Emerging Markets

Veritas Rethinks Emerging Market Exposure: Shift to “Ex-China” Allocations

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Emerging market investing has never been a one-size-fits-all approach,...
Emerging Markets

AP2’s Quant Approach to EM Equities: Balancing Risk, Return, and Sustainability

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With some SEK 460 billion under management across virtually...
Allocator Interviews

AP3 Re-Enters Emerging Markets with a Fresh Lens

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Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Sweden’s buffer fund, AP3 Tredje AP-fonden,...

In-Depth: Diversification in a Correlated World

AP3’s Tactical Layer: A New Dimension of Diversification

Diversification is often discussed in terms of broad asset...

Diversifying with Gold and Silver: Why Miners Amplify Opportunity

In the institutional investor’s world, diversification is not a...

SilverDome One: Building Resilience in a Correlated World

In early 2023, two Swedes who had spent six...

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Diversification in Correlated World

Trade-off Between Illiquidity and Rebalancing Premium

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In the search for diversification and higher returns, institutional...
Diversification in Correlated World

Diversification in the Era of Monetary Reset

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Diversification has long been a cornerstone of investing, designed...
Allocator Interviews

AP3’s Tactical Layer: A New Dimension of Diversification

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Diversification is often discussed in terms of broad asset...
Diversification in Correlated World

Diversifying with Gold and Silver: Why Miners Amplify Opportunity

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In the institutional investor’s world, diversification is not a...

Rethinking the 60/40 Portfolio

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Baillie Gifford: Emerging Markets Are Moving Beyond the Macro Cycle

For decades, emerging markets have largely been viewed through a macro lens: a bet on a weaker U.S. dollar, rising commodity prices and stronger...

Folketrygdfondet on the Enduring Case for 60/40

The traditional 60/40 portfolio, combining the complementary roles of equities and bonds, remains a central reference point in institutional portfolio construction. Few investors have...

Varma: Practical Considerations for Embracing a Total Portfolio View

Finland’s Varma is one of several large Nordic asset owners that has been moving towards a more holistic view of the portfolio – some...

Thinking Outside the 60/40 Box: How Active and Dynamic Commodities Can Complement Bonds

Bonds helped investors to diversify equity between about 2000 and 2021, which more than covers the entire career of many allocators. Since 2022 bonds...

AP3’s Jonas Thulin: “The 60/40 Portfolio Has Run Its Course”

The 60/40 portfolio was built on a simple premise: equities drive long-term returns while bonds provide stability and diversification. But that relationship is no...

60/40 – Don’t Count On It

By Harold de Boer at Transtrend: Cows produce milk. Every day again. That’s the fixed income for the dairy farmer. Bulls don’t produce milk....

Diversification That Comes From Somewhere Else

Insurance-linked investments offer something increasingly difficult to find in institutional portfolios: return drivers that are fundamentally different from those behind equities and bonds. At...

Reinforce, Don’t Replace: Carrying the 60/40 Through the Fragile Decade

By Steven Braun at Newfound Research and Return Stacked® Portfolio Solutions: Despite its ambiguous origins, the 60/40 remains the default portfolio for investors approaching...

Next Generation of Managers

Colosseum Turns Corner as Douglas Swedberg Joins as Portfolio Manager

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Ridge Capital Builds Out Investment Team

Stockholm-based boutique manager Ridge Capital has strengthened its investment team with the appointments of Oliver Eliassen as Senior Portfolio Analyst and Olivia Berg Wadsten...

SRV Capital Promotes Portfolio Manager, Adds New Analyst

Danish fixed-income boutique SRV Capital has strengthened its investment team following another year of strong growth, promoting analyst Peter Dam Skjærbæk to Portfolio Manager...

Quirky Questions for Constantijn Huigen (Ridge Capital)

Not every hedge fund conversation has to center solely on strategy, returns, or market moves. In HedgeNordic’s Quirky Questions series, we step beyond the...

Allocating to Alpha

Why Some Nordic Allocators Prefer Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds

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Elo’s Slow-Moving Hedge Fund Portfolio Built Around Access

Soon after Kari Vatanen joined Finnish pension insurer Elo as Head of Asset Allocation and Alternatives, he praised the team behind the firm’s hedge...

Apoteket CIO Leans on Hedge Funds for High Sharpe

Gustav Karner, Chief Investment Officer of Apoteket’s Pension Fund since 2017, has delivered one of the highest Sharpe ratios among Sweden’s largest institutional investors,...

Nobel Foundation’s Hedge Funds: Evolving Past Fixed Income Replacement

As Chief Investment Officer of the Nobel Foundation, Ulrika Bergman is responsible for overseeing the foundation’s investment strategy to ensure the long-term financial sustainability...

Running a Hedge Fund Business

Protean Promotes COO to CEO as Founder Focuses on Investing

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New Era at Origo Fonder

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Fund boutique Origo Fonder has appointed Per Johansson as Co-Chief Investment Officer and Oscar Severinsson as Chief Operating Officer. Johansson, a well-known...

Former IPM COO Takes Helm of Tidan’s Operations

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Stockholm-based fund boutique Tidan Capital has announced the appointment of Stuart Abel as its new Chief Operating Officer (COO). Abel, a...

A COO for Protean’s Growth Journey

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The founding duo of the newly-launched Swedish hedge fund Protean Select has appointed Daniel Mackey as the Chief Operating Officer of...

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Historic Small-Cap Discount Offers Long-Term Opportunity, Not a Timing Signal

Small caps are trading at a historically wide valuation discount to large caps, creating a potentially attractive long-term...

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Diversification That Comes From Somewhere Else

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