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Hedge Funds: A Swedish Pension Fund CEO’s Experience Over 25 Years

London (HedgeNordic) - Peter Hansson, the former CEO of Sparinstitutens Pensionskassa (SPK), is a true pension and investments veteran and has in his 37-year career...

Round Table: Uncovering Alpha in a “Fat and Flat” Equity Market

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Equity markets have enjoyed an almost uninterrupted run upward ever since bottoming out in early 2009, after the fallout of the financial...

Nordic Selectors Cool on Alternative Ucits Funds

Stockholm (Hedgenordic/Expertinvestor) - Alternative Ucits funds offering hedge-fund-style absolute return strategies – providing investors with access to a wider pool of private and illiquid asset...

Varma Divests From Credit, Goes Into Macro Hedge Funds

Stockholm (Hedgenordic/Bloomberg) - Varma, the Finnish private-sector pension firm with about 45 billion euros of assets, may shift more money into global macro investments...

Hedge fund fees hindering investment by pension schemes

(HedgeWeek) - High management fees are a key hindrance preventing pension schemes from investing in hedge funds, followed closely by a lack of transparency...

Family Offices Trim Exposure to Hedge Funds

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Family offices are trimming their exposure to hedge funds for at least the fourth consecutive year, according to a survey among...

Danish Pension Provider Goes Solo – External Managers Judged Too Costly

Stockholm (Bloomberg/Hedgenordic) - The biggest commercial pension provider in Denmark has had enough of external funds and is instead using its own people to...

Challenging the value of hedge funds

Stockholm (Hedgenordic) - Erik Penser Bank’s recently appointed head of asset management, Jonas Thulin (pictured), sees little value adding hedge funds over ETF:s as...

AP3 hires Maria Björklund to Alternatives Team

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Third Swedish buffer fund, AP3 announced the hire of Maria Björklund as Senior Portfolio Manager for Alternative investments on their website....

HF Head Matilainen to leave Varma – set up Shop

Stockholm (HedeNordic) - Jarkko Matilainen, head of hedge funds at one of Europe´s largest hedge fund investors, Varma, is said to leave the Finnish...

World’s Biggest Wealth Fund Dings Tesla

(ZeroHedge) - Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund - the largest in the world - reported earnings for Q2 on Tuesday, a quarter in which it...

A $12 billion asset manager wants out of the hedge fund ‘fee racket’

South African money manager Sygnia Ltd. closed all its hedge-fund products, ending a 13-year history with an investment strategy its chief executive officer now...