Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Pacific Fonder AB, the Swedish asset manager running two funds from the NHX universe, has appointed Peter Beckman as the firm’s new Chief Executive Officer. Beckman had been the deputy managing director of mutual fund company SPP Fonder AB since 2009 and also served as acting managing director in three of the nine years he spent at SPP Fonder.

Beckman replaces current CEO Mattias Gromark, who will focus exclusively on running three of the five funds under the Pacific Fonder AB umbrella after a stint of three years as CEO, effective as of May 25, 2018. Pacific Fonder was founded in the spring of 2015 and manages three equity funds with dynamic mandates and two alternative funds with absolute return mandates. Following the transition, Gromark will be solely responsible for managing the three dynamic equity funds. Eric Strand manages the two absolute return funds included in the NHX: Pacific Multi Asset and Pacific Precious.

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