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Best Nordic Fund of Hedge Funds 2020

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The number of active Nordic funds of hedge funds declined from 31 at the beginning of 2015 to 19 at the...

Calling it Quits

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – After spending many years at one of Norway’s leading investment banks, Oslo-based money managers Kent Torbjørnsen and Ole Christian Presterud joined...

Accendo’s Latest Friendship

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Activist investor Accendo Capital is making a new investment in Modelon, a Swedish provider of model-based systems engineering solutions. Modelon has...

Performance Awards 2020

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – No nominees. No models to determine winners. No opinions and no hiding. For the Performance Awards at the Nordic Hedge Award...

Sean George to Leave Sweden

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Hedge fund manager Sean George has decided to leave Strukturinvest Fondkommission and Sweden for new challenges abroad. Consequently, Hamiltonian Global Credit...

Ensuing Bidding War?

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Chelonia Market Neutral’s fourth-largest holding is subject to a public takeover bid. On Thursday morning, Norway’s biggest bank DNB announced an...

Bet on Defensives

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Max Mitteregger, the founder and portfolio manager of Stockholm-based long/short equity fund Gladiator Fond, has long been concerned about the massive...

Strongest 12 Months on Record

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Nordic equity hedge funds advanced 1.2 percent in March (94 percent reported) to bring their first-quarter advance to 5.2 percent, capping...

The Multi-Strategy Appeal

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The term “multi-strategy” does not always have clear edges, with multi-strategy funds often coming in many different shapes and colors. Multi-strategy...

The White Crow

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The term “White Crow” is a Russian language-originating metaphor for a person who is different from others, one variant of the...

The Hedge Fund Pandemic

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The global hedge fund industry has been under pressure for years as hedge funds have lagged behind a long-running historic bull...

SuperStrategies

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – For more than a decade, Nordea’s multi-asset investment team headed by Asbjørn Trolle Hansen has successfully isolated and captured return drivers...