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A Golden Age Ahead for Fixed-Income Hedge Funds?

Fixed-income hedge funds have long been an important and resilient segment of the Nordic hedge fund space, particularly in the past two years, with...

Svelland Capital Adds Quant Capabilities

Svelland Capital, a discretionary asset manager in commodities and shipping markets, has strengthened its quantitative capabilities with the appointment of Pål Sundsøy as Head...

A New Chapter at the Nordic Hedge Award: ELO Joins the Ranks

For the first time, the Nordic Hedge Award will introduce a new category: Long-Only Equity Hedge Funds (ELO). This category aims to recognize strategies...

Atlant Stability Reaches Five-Star Morningstar Rating

Atlant Fonder’s derivatives-assisted fixed-income fund, Atlant Stability, has been upgraded to a five-star rating in Morningstar’s grading system, up from four stars last year....

Nordea Changes Name of European Rates Opportunity

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Just over five years after its launch, Nordea’s European Rates Opportunity Fund is being renamed Global Rates Opportunity Fund to better...

Origo Fonder Lands Mandate from NBIM

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, has awarded a mandate to Swedish stock-picking boutique Origo Fonder through a separately...

Standout Month for Symmetry: A Sign of Things to Come?

February of this year marked one of the best months in the nearly 12-year history of stock-picking hedge fund Symmetry Invest with an advance...

CTAs Struggle Amid Reversals, Non-Trend Strategies Hold Up

In February 2025, the NHX CTA index was down due to losses in soft commodities, energies, and bonds as markets reversed forcefully on gloomy...

Tidan Capital Launches Portable Alpha Product

Late last year, Tidan Capital introduced Nova, a market-neutral options and volatility arbitrage strategy designed to exploit anomalies in equity options markets. These inefficiencies...

Protean Officially Rolls Out Third Fund: Active with Index-Level Fees

Stock-picking boutique Protean Funds is set to officially challenge passive investing with the launch of its third fund, Protean Aktiesparfond Norden, on April 1....

New Fund Blends Steno’s Nowcasting and Asgard’s Risk Premia

After founding his own macro research firm, former Nordea Chief Strategist Andreas Steno Larsen has joined forces with fixed-income specialist Asgard Asset Management to...

Tidan, Ridge, and Svelland Bring Home EuroHedge Awards

As is tradition, Nordic hedge funds once again secured a strong presence among the nominees at the EuroHedge Awards and, as usual, some returned...