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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...

Van den Heuvel: Noise Against a Background of Strong Economics

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - With continued uncertainty over trade wars, potential interest rate rises and geopolitical risks such as the on-going Brexit negotiations Olaf van den...

Mike Novogratz: A ‘Herd of Institutional Investors’ Is Moving Into Crypto

The institutions are coming for crypto . At least that's according to one-time hedge fund billionaire Mike Novogratz. Novogratz previously led a notable macro...

Italian pension funds cut bonds in diversification push

Italian pension funds reduced their aggregate exposure to government bonds last year as investors diversified their investment portfolios, according to the national pensions regulator...

Jenny Askfelt Ruud new head of Alternatives at AP4

Stockholm (HedgeNordic)  - AP4, one of the buffer funds in Sweden’s state pension system managing a total of SEK357bn (€34.4bn) , has newly appointed Jenny...

University roundup: Cambridge nets 19% investment return

>Cambridge University’s £3bn (€3.4bn) endowment fund (CUEF) posted an 18.8% investment return for the 12 months to 30 June 2017 – almost three times...

AP3 Cutting Exposure to Hedge Funds

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - The third Swedish national pension fund, AP3, has been trimming the overall exposure to hedge funds due to a combination of...

Martin Källström joins Lynx from AP1

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Martin Källström will be joining Swedish CTA manager Lynx in September 2018 as a partner and member of management. Källström will...

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 up with Martin Källström, who heads the team behind...

Hedge funds – the right medicine for Swedish pharmacy pension foundation

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Gustav Karner, who took over the leadership of the pension foundation for the Swedish state-owned pharmacy retailer Apoteket in May 2017,...