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Varma Appoints New Head of Real Estate

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Finnish pension fund Varma has appointed Sampsa Ratia as the director in charge of real estate investments to replace Ilkka Tomperi,...

Equities and Alternatives Drive AP1’s Returns

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The Swedish national pension fund Första AP-fonden (AP1), which had SEK 431.5 billion under management at the end of June, enjoyed...

Getting High on Confidence

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – With half the year already behind us, both Nordic and global hedge funds enjoyed their best first-half return since 2009. According...

Beautiful in Their Own Way

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Faced with an ultra-low and “lower for longer” interest rate environment, institutional investors have increasingly turned to private markets to offset...

Growth Capital for Swedish-Born Fintech

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Fintech company C8 Technologies founded by Swedish brothers Mattias and Magnus Eriksson has raised $7 million in a Series A round...

Wearing Multiple Hats

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The ability to dampen volatility in equity portfolios may not have been in particularly high demand in the pre-pandemic period, as...

Alecta’s Hunger for Private Businesses

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Many up-and-coming companies with great prospects are no longer racing to list their shares on public markets. Despite the extra challenges...

Norway’s Sovereign Hedge Fund…

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Nicolai Tangen has been at the helm of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, the largest sovereign wealth fund in the...

Where Are the Diversifiers?

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The heterogeneous nature of hedge funds and other alternatives may complicate the capital allocation process for large institutional investors such as...

No Better Alternative

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Fixed-income investments are a mainstay of institutional portfolios, not because institutional investors really want to, but because they have to. And...

A New Dawn

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Hedge funds are the favored asset class to enhance the traditional 60/40 asset-allocation portfolio – the mix of 60 percent equities...

Alts Chief Starts New Journey

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Wealth management company CapMan Wealth Services has recruited four new wealth advisory, alternative investment and marketing professionals at the beginning of...