A Swiss family office is seeking to allocate $5 million to liquid alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds, managed futures, commodities, and funds providing exposure to the future energy ecosystem. The mandate represents the alternative investments allocation for one of the family office’s underlying clients, a trust structure with...
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...
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,...
Morten Christensen, Chief Financial Officer of Norwegian family office Aars, has effectively built the structure of the investment management of the family office from...
High-yield bonds have long functioned as a carry-driven return engine in institutional portfolios, offering enhanced income and access to the corporate credit risk premium....
While Norway’s global sovereign wealth giant, the Government Pension Fund Global, widely known as the Oil Fund, invests trillions across international markets, its lesser-known...
Many institutional investors have gradually internalized mandates once awarded to external managers, seeking tighter cost control, greater transparency, and improved alignment. Emerging market debt...
After several years of strong performance in fixed income, the easy gains in credit markets appear largely exhausted. With corporate spreads now hovering near...
Emerging markets have spent much of the past decade testing investors’ patience. After years of trailing U.S. equities, the asset class finally turned the...
Diversification is often discussed in terms of broad asset allocation. For Jonas Thulin, the CIO of the Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3), diversification...
ESG integration remains a standard component of private credit investing, particularly in Europe and among Nordic institutional allocators, but its momentum has slowed. Conversations...
Institutional investors today allocate across virtually every corner of public and private markets, and private credit has emerged as a market in its own...
Anders Ellegaard has served as Head of Fixed Income at Industriens Pension for nearly six years, overseeing the pension fund’s fixed-income portfolio spanning traditional...
