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Latest news in alternatives

AP4 Boosts Alternatives Team

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Hanna Ideström has recently joined the Alternative Investments team at AP4, one of the buffer funds in the Swedish state pension...

Alternative Fixed Income Market – Iceland

London (HedgeNordic) – In the past couple of decades and since the Global Financial Crisis, Iceland has featured in more news than it probably...

Sampension’s Viewpoint on the Low-Return World

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – A once-unthinkable environment of ultra-low and negative interest rates and historically expensive equity markets has been forcing pension funds to search...

Hedge Funds Are Losing Ground to Alternatives

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Allocations to alternative asset classes remain robust and little changed in the past several years. Still, preferences for specific types of...

Endowments Ain’t Giving Up on HFs

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Endowments and foundations reduced their hedge fund exposure in the past year, but many organizations still use hedge fund strategies to...

PFA’s Unlisted Investments Surpass DKK 100 Billion Mark

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Danish pension fund PFA has more than DKK 100 billion in unlisted investments, which form an important part of the returns...

Insourcing Trend to Decelerate

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Large institutional investors have been insourcing asset management in recent years in an attempt to enhance returns by reducing costs. Nordic...

AP3 Retains High Conviction Names

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The hedge fund industry has had a tough time in the past several years, which prompted some large institutional investors such...

Finnish Pension Fund Turns to Alternatives

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Around $15 trillion of government-issued bonds, or one-fourth of the market, trade at negative yields worldwide, according to Deutsche Bank. As...

The Role & Value of Hedge Funds

(Stockholm) -  HedgeNordic asked three of this year’s Nordic Hedge Award jury members – Ulrika Bergman of the Nobel Foundation, Linsay McPhater of Danica...

AP1’s Insourcing of HF Strategies Nears Completion

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Sweden's AP1 fund, which previously embarked on a process of overhauling its allocation approach to alternative investments, has turned to more...

Pension Provider Alecta Shuns Hedge Funds

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – One of the largest Swedish pension fund managers finds hedge funds unappealing and costly in the current environment and has opted...