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The State Pension Fund of Finland (VER) delivered double-digit returns from its hedge fund portfolio in both 2024 and 2025, and entered the second half of 2026 on a strong footing after gaining 6.9 percent in the first six months. However, heightened market volatility in the third quarter eroded...

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The Madness of Crowds Creates Short Opportunities in Nordic Small Caps

Shorting Nordic small and mid-cap stocks requires more than identifying companies whose valuations appear stretched. Limited borrow availability, thin trading volumes, and unpredictable price...

Anna Svahn on Risk, Adaptability, and the Art of Portfolio Management

Anna Svahn took an unconventional route into portfolio management, building her investment experience through personal trading, writing, and entrepreneurship rather than investment banking or...

SEB Asset Selection Marks 20 Years of Trend-Following Evolution

Twenty years is a long time in the hedge fund industry, where strategies evolve, market environments change, and investment teams come and go. Once...

Kaspar Hållsten Carries a Family Legacy Into Rhenman’s Next Generation

Career choices are often shaped long before we make them. A parent’s profession, a grandparent’s stories or simply the conversations around the dinner table...

Taiga’s Long/Short Playbook for Nordic Small Caps

A first-time investor looking at the roughly 6 percent cumulative return from Nordic equities over the past two years could be forgiven for looking...

R2 Crystal Finds Room to Grow in a Diversified Hedge Fund Model

The Nordic hedge fund industry has fewer than ten funds managing more than €1 billion, but a growing group is approaching that threshold. Among...

How CABA Capital Is Navigating the New Operational Demands

The role of the chief operating officer at hedge fund boutiques has changed significantly over the past decade. For Mette Østerbye Vejen, Chief Executive...

How Steadnor Combines Systematic Investing, High ROIC and Concentration

After more than a decade as a stockbroker in Oslo and London, Morten Norton Halle developed his own framework for investing in equities, shaped...

Always Opportunities Applies Traditional Credit to an Underserved Market

The origins of Always Opportunities can be traced back to a bond transaction involving mobility company Voi. What initially brought together founders, venture capital...

The New Coda: From Intuition to a Unified Investment Process

Peter Andersland is best known in the Nordic hedge fund space as the co-founder of Sector Asset Management, where he remains a shareholder. While...

When Diversification Fails: Qblue’s Case for Alternative Risk Premia

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 NOVA Profiting from Volatility Skew as Market Participants Seek Protection

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...