Soon after Kari Vatanen joined Finnish pension insurer Elo as Head of Asset Allocation and Alternatives, he praised the team behind the firm’s hedge fund portfolio and its long-term performance. Mika Jaatinen, who manages the allocation alongside Antti Vartiainen, explains how Elo constructs its hedge fund portfolio, how it...
Longevity is not a defining feature of the hedge fund industry. Wide performance dispersion, impatient capital, and a high fixed-cost base create a fragile...
The notion that a traditional 60/40 portfolio offers meaningful diversification has long been questioned by practitioners. When implementing the Total Portfolio Approach at Danish...
Tidan Capital’s evolution into a multi-strategy platform reflects a broader effort to deliver complementary sources of alpha, with its NOVA strategy serving as a...
There are multiple ways to approach equity investing and, ultimately, the pursuit of alpha. While many strategies rely on market direction or discretionary stock...
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the manager of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, better known as the oil fund, is widely recognised for overseeing...
Having recently moved to limit inflows into its opportunistic long/short equity fund, Protean Funds Scandinavia is now expanding on another front, strengthening its investor...
AMF has strengthened its investment organization with the addition of Erik Eikeland, a former portfolio manager at hedge fund boutique Alcur Fonder. Eikeland brings...
Taner Pikdöken, former partner and portfolio manager at alternative fund boutique Atlant Fonder, has re-emerged with the launch of Always Summer Asset Management, a...
Hedge fund manager Marcus Wahlberg has decided to outsource the fund management function of his long/short equity strategy, Elementa, to ISEC Services, consolidating administrative,...
