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CTAs Retreat Again

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Nordic CTAs were unable to build on the positive performance experienced in October as November showed a loss of 1.3 percent...

CTAs Snub Bitcoin Futures

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is listing a bitcoin futures contract on December 18, after having received approval from the regulatory...

No One-Trick Pony

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Coeli Prognosis Machines, a systematic macro strategy combining financial models with artificial intelligence to make investments in a wide array of...

CTA rollercoaster ride continues

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Beaten down in September, CTAs made a strong comeback in October as the roller-coaster ride for trend following hedge funds continued. According...

Runestone Capital Fund Enters NHX

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Runestone Capital Fund, an absolute return fund started by two Nordic-born managers, was added to the Nordic Hedge Index (NHX). The...

CTAs getting crushed in September

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Systematic trend following hedge funds or CTAs, as measured by the Barclay BTOP50 index, took another hit in September early estimates...

AIMA Highlights Benefits of CTAs

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Fresh research shows that investor portfolios containing managed futures funds perform better and exhibit less risk than those without them. Despite...

Mixed Performance for Estlander & Partners Strategies in August

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The family of Estlander & Partners (E&P) strategies posted mixed performance in August, with the firm’s Presto strategy topping the list...

Lynx “down but not out”

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - In a recent article in Swedish business magazine Dagens Industri (DI), Svante Bergström (pictured), founder and CEO of Swedish systematic trend...

Trend-Following Alfa Axiom Fund Stages a Comeback in July

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Trend-following fund Alfa Axiom Fund generated a whopping return of 8.30% in July, reducing the fund’s year-to-date loss to 5.15%. This...

Long equity exposure no reason to doubt CTA crisis protection – RPM

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - In its most recent research piece, Swedish CTA-specialist RPM argue that the current long equity exposure of systematic trend following strategies...

Nordic CTAs recover in July, trend followers in bad international company on year

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Nordic CTAs, as measured by the Nordic Hedge CTA Index (NHX CTA), gained 2.37 percent in July and thereby recovered from...