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Allocator Interviews

Latest news in alternatives

2022: The Year of Traditional Trend-Followers

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Trend-following CTAs enjoyed one of their best years in 2022 amid a lack of equilibrium across regions and asset classes. The...

Round Table: Managed Futures / CTA

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – There was plenty to talk about at HedgeNordic’s CTA round table. After two years of hosting the event in digital format,...

Does the Captain Still Fly?

By Harold de Boer – Transtrend: “How would the investment manager characterize the basic trading approach for this strategy? What percentage is ‘Discretionary’ and...

The Raisons d’être of Managed Futures

By Cliff Asness – AQR Capital Management: The Federal Reserve has an explicit dual mandate. Managed Futures strategies have an implicit one—specifically, 1) deliver positive...

An Update on A Contemporary Evaluation of Key Alternative Investments

By Dan Rizzuto and Linus Nilsson: In our September 2021 article (HedgeNordic Systematic Strategies, 2021) we sought to evaluate CTAs, Risk Premia, and Hedge...

If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Austrian CTA manager SMN is clocking in at an impressive gain of 85 percent with their SMN Diversified Futures Fund over...

Trend Following: A Regime-Agnostic Strategy

London (HedgeNordic) – The first half of 2022 will be remembered as an exceptional environment for systematic managers who specialize in trend-following, commonly known...

Lynx Stays True to Main Objective

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Many trend-following strategies have flourished in 2022 amid a persistence of larger trends across several asset classes. The most successful trend...

A Banner Month for Nordic Trend-Followers

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Nordic trend-followers notched big gains in September, with the group advancing 3.0 percent on average last month to take the year-to-date...

NS Quant Closes Down in Trendy Environment

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Systematic trend-following strategies as a group have enjoyed an outstanding 2022 so far, but the industry still experienced diverging fortunes this...

Nordic CTAs Back to Winning Ways

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – After giving back some gains in July, the best performing Nordic trend-following CTAs of the first half of 2022 are back...

Another Mixed Month for Nordic CTAs

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Nordic CTAs enjoyed a strong first half of June only to see trends reverse in the second half – and profits...