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Nordic CTAs Hit by March Market Reversals

In March 2025, the NHX CTA Index was down amid several intra-month reversals across markets as profits in commodities were not enough to offset...

DBi Secures Nordic Backing for Ex-Commodities Managed Futures ETF

Less than a month after launching Europe’s only Managed Futures ETF, iM Global Partner (iMGP) and its partner DBi have introduced the first managed...

Europe Gets Its Managed Futures UCITS ETF with iMGP DBi Launch

The United States has long been home to trend-following CTA ETFs, offering investors quick, liquid exposure to one of the most effective diversifiers in...

CTAs Struggle Amid Reversals, Non-Trend Strategies Hold Up

In February 2025, the NHX CTA index was down due to losses in soft commodities, energies, and bonds as markets reversed forcefully on gloomy...

Mixed CTA Performance as Traditional Trend-Followers Lead

By HedgeNordic and RPM: In January 2025, the NHX CTA sub-index in the Nordic Hedge Index edged up 0.3 percent, trailing other CTA benchmarks....

Main Drivers of CTA Performance in 2024

By RPM Risk & Portfolio Management: Following a year of low Time Series Momentum (TSMOM) and relatively weak performance, in 2024, CTAs generated positive...

A Mouthfull of CTA Flavours

Picture stepping into a bustling kitchen filled with chefs from around the world, each working with the same core ingredients—spices, proteins, and grains—but creating...

Mandatum’s CTA Defies Trend in Tough August for Trend-Followers

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Trend-following managers had a tough time navigating markets in August, as evidenced by the 4.5 percent decline in the SG Trend...

SEB’s Asset Selection Hit Hardest

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Many trend-following players faced significant challenges during the sharp sell-off in early August, driven by the unwinding of Yen-funded carry trades...

Sell-Off Challenges CTAs: Crisis-Alpha in Short Supply?

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – After a period of strong equity returns throughout most of 2024, trend-following CTAs were heavily long equities ahead of the sell-offs...

Estlander Awaiting the Black Swan

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Finnish systematic asset manager Estlander & Partners has been in the business of providing so-called “crisis alpha” for decades through one...

Pros and Cons of Replicating “All-Stars” Trend-Followers

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Andrew Beer and his team at Dynamic Beta investments (DBi), which is part of asset management network iM Global Partner, believe...