After several years of strong performance in fixed income, the easy gains in credit markets appear largely exhausted. With corporate spreads now hovering near historical lows, investors are once again confronted with a familiar challenge: how to generate meaningful carry without assuming disproportionate downside risk. For Ville Iso-Mustajärvi, portfolio...
Hedge funds continue to play a meaningful role in the portfolios of Finland’s largest pension investors. Combined hedge fund allocations across six major institutional...
The State Pension Fund of Finland (VER) allocates just over €1 billion to hedge funds and systematic strategies, representing a modest 4.3 percent of...
A Swiss family office is currently seeking to allocate capital to a manager specializing in liquid hedge fund strategies, with an initial commitment of...
While most credit investors aim to avoid defaults, Swedish investors Gustav Hultgren and Tobias Thunander have built a career on the opposite: buying non-performing...
U.S.-based investment manager Lucerne Capital Management has announced the launch of the Lucerne European Income Select Fund (LEISF), an actively managed strategy aiming to...
Although Swedbank Robur does not manage hedge funds in-house, Swedbank’s manager research team continues to find selective external hedge funds attractive for client portfolios....
Finland’s largest institutional investors remain committed allocators to hedge funds, yet the State Pension Fund of Finland’s (VER) hedge fund allocation stood out as...
The first half of 2025 brought a complex market backdrop shaped by shifting macroeconomic trends, tariffs, geopolitical uncertainty, and volatile investor sentiment. Although returns...
The first half of 2025 was far from smooth sailing for investors, hedge fund managers included. Varma, Finland’s largest hedge fund investor, nevertheless reported...
BNY Investments Newton, the specialist multi-asset and equity management arm of BNY Mellon, has launched the BNY Adaptive Risk Overlay Fund – a tail-hedging...
Not every conversation in the hedge fund world needs to revolve around alpha, trend signals, or trading models. In HedgeNordic’s Quirky Questions series, we ask industry...
Brevan Howard Asset Management is winding down a volatility-focused hedge fund run by high-profile Finnish portfolio manager Ville Helske. Helske, formerly Head of Allocation...
