Breaking with tradition: AP1´s abolition of alternative buckets
A State-led pension fund AP1 is overhauling its approach to alternative investment allocation, HedgeNordic caught…
Browsing: Allocator Angle
Hedge funds – the right medicine for Swedish pharmacy pension foundation
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Gustav Karner, who took over the leadership of the pension foundation for…
Engaging With Alternative Managers
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In preparation of a featured editorial HedgeNordic’s upcoming quarterly report, we had…
Market Neutral and Volatility Strategies Under the Spotlight
(HedgeNordic) – The Nordic Hedge Award has been recognising the best Nordic hedge fund managers…
Hedge Fund Returns Exceeded Institutional Investors’ Expectations in 2017
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Almost three quarters (74 percent) of institutional investors say that their hedge…
Hedge Funds Regain Appeal for Ilmarinen
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In a recent interview with Bloomberg, Mikko Mursula (pictured), the chief investment officer…
Jury board for 2017 Nordic Hedge Award Announced
Sstockholm (HedgeNordic) – The Nordic Hedge Award is set to distinguish outstanding hedge fund managers…
Round Table: Family Offices & Hedge Funds
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – While ultimately families are patient investors with investment horizons often spreading across…
Nordic Allocators’ View on Real Estate and Infrastructure
Real estate and infrastructure investments have been on the rise among institutions in the Nordics…
AP1 appoints Hermes in Global HY diversification
Stockholm (NordSIP) – AP1 (Första AP-Fonden), the first of the five buffer funds in the…
Granit Recruits AP4’s Ulf Erlandsson In FI Expansion
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Granit Fonder, the Swedish fund management company, has recruited Ulf Erlandsson (pictured) from…
Varma Continues Hedge Fund Allocations Unabated
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – An in-depth feature in the May issue of the Investment & Pensions…
Ericsson Pensionsstiftelse Adds Long-Only Managers
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Ericsson Pensionsstiftelse (EPS), a Stockholm-based SEK 21 billion ($2.3 billion) pension fund…
Hedge Funds “Less Appealing” for Ilmarinen
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) Growing prospects of a U.S. boom and lack of confidence in Europe’s political…
AP2 Enhances ESG Integration in Asset Management
Stockholm (NordSIP) -AP2, the second Swedish national pensions buffer fund (Andra AP-fonden), has divested 10…
Instis Foresee Increase in Asset Allocation Changes
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – A new survey from Fidelity Global Institutional Investor has found that institutional…
Wealth manager Perspectives on the Zero interest Environment
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Like many other investors with a fixed Income component in their portfolios, asset…
The hunt for yield
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Negative or near-negative interest rates, which was unthinkable not so long ago, are now…
IPM wins US Pension fund mandate
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The Massachusetts State Pension Fund has decided to add Stockholm-based IPM to its…
Volvo launch fund of hedge funds
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Volvo Car Group Investment Management, VCG IM, a subsidiary to the car…