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Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In the decade following the financial crisis, the low-interest-rate environment enabled many hedge funds to launch without setting cash-based hurdle rates before charging performance fees. However, with interest rates on the rise, hedge fund allocators are increasingly demanding managers to deliver some outperformance over the risk-free...

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Danske Expands Illiquid Alternatives Fund Range

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Danske Bank Asset Management is launching a new open-ended alternatives fund focused on private equity and infrastructure investments expected to generate...

Investors Turning to Private Assets for Resilience

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Schroders has released the findings of its annual survey conducted among institutional investors, shedding light on how 770 major investors with...

Industriens Pension Hires Trio of Senior Managers

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Danish pension fund Industriens Pension has strengthened its investment team with the appointment of Martin Munkesø, Linsay McPhater, and Claus Bajlum...

Varma Promotes Ratia to Real Assets Head

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Sampsa Ratia has been promoted to Varma’s newly created role of Head of Real Assets after serving as the pension fund’s...

Private Markets Investing Through an ESG Lens

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In recent years, environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have moved from somewhere near the bottom of many investors’ priority list...

Real Assets PM Strömsten Friberg Joins Niam

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Infrastructure manager Niam Infrastructure has hired Johanna Strömsten Friberg as Associate Director from Swedish pension fund Alecta, where she worked as...

The Birth of Obligo’s Third Infra Fund

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Alternative asset manager Obligo has announced the first closing of its third infrastructure fund, Obligo Nordic Climate Impact Fund (Obligo Infrastructure...

Obligo’s Approach to Future-Proof Infrastructure

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – With infrastructure investment sitting at the heart of many governments’ post-Covid economic recovery plans and a worldwide need for infrastructure investments,...

Infrastructure Specialist Gilles Lafleuriel Joins Obligo

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Gilles Lafleuriel, the Head of Real Assets and Alternatives within Nordea Asset Management’s manager selection team, joined real estate and infrastructure-focused...

Financing EM Infrastructure with Nordic Backing

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Swiss impact investor BlueOrchard has announced the first closing of its infrastructure-focused private debt fund BlueOrchard Sustainable Asset Fund, with support...

Listed Infra as Inflation Hedge

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Swedish asset manager Carnegie Fonder has launched a new equity fund that invests in listed companies linked to infrastructure. Managed by...

Final Close, A New Beginning

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Finnish asset manager Evli announced the completion of the final closing of Evli Infrastructure Fund I, a fund of funds investing...