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Top 100 list of Swedish fund managers lists Fidelity as number one

20th March (Citywire): New research from Citywire showed the top 100 fund managers in Sweden with Fidelity at first place. The top 100 list...

Nordic Capital’s takeover bid for TietoEnator has been rejected

March 20th (Bloomberg): The largest computer services provider in Scandinavia, TietoEnator Oyj, has rejected a EUR 1.1 billion takeover bid from Swedish Nordic Capital....

HFR reports of slowdown in hedge fund launches and liquidations

March 20th (The Euromoney Institutional Investor Online Network): According to the hedge fund information and performance data provider Hedge Fund Research (HFR), there was...

European trade commissioner asked to intervene in hedge fund dispute

March 19th (Times Online): London-based hedge fund manager, Chris Hohn has requested that the European trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, should intervene in his dispute...

Hedge funds are forced into distressed sales

March 19th (Reuters): On Tuesday, Polar Capital announced that it had been buying up mid and small-cap stocks from hedge funds that were forced...

Swedish fund Thyra Hedge has joined the NHX

March 18th: The long/short equity hedge fund, Thyra Hedge, has joined the Nordic Hedge Fund Index, which now contains 125 hedge funds. Thyra Hedge...

New fund manager found for Swedish funds AMplus and Elbrus

Cicero Fonder has entered into an agreement with Holtback & Partners Kapitalförvaltning to take over the mangement of AMplus and Elbrus. New managers responsible for...

Hedge funds cut ties from prime broker

March 18th (Financial Times): After JPMorgan Chase’s rescue of Bear Stearns in an all shares deal, numerous high-profile hedge funds have cut ties with...

Norway opens up to hedge funds

March 17th (Dow Jones Newswires/ FXstreet.com): Friday, the Norwegian Finance Ministry put forward a proposal allowing hedge funds to be established in the country...

Correlation between funds of hedge funds and world equities increase

March 17th (Financial Times): Funds of hedge funds are reportedly becoming more correlated with world equities as their popularity increase and fund managers apply...

Swedish CB Hedge Europe joins the NHX

The long/short equity hedge fund, CB Hedge Europe, has joined the Nordic Hedge Fund Index as fund number 124. The fund has entered the...

It is time for hedge fund industry shake-out

March 14th (The Independent): When the credit crisis first struck it was expected that hedge funds would suffer greatly, but in the beginning the...