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Fredrik Sjöstrand’s Direct Lending Journey Comes to an End

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Fredrik Sjöstrand was on a quest to develop an investment solution that would...

Leadership Changes at Nowo as Ola Björkmo Departs QQM

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Swedish fintech Nowonomics has announced the appointment of a new CEO, Amelie Söderberg, as the previous chief executive Rutger Selin is...

Rookie of the Year 2022: Protean Select

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – One of the first distinctions up for grabs in the lifecycle of a newly-launched hedge fund in the Nordics is the...

Scandinavian Credit Fund I Open for Business Once Again

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Direct lending vehicle Scandinavian Credit Fund I temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals in December to address the challenge posed by the...

Taiga Celebrates 15 Years from May 2008 Launch

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Some 15 years ago in May of 2008, Ola Wessel-Aas and Andreas Petterøe at Taiga Fund Management launched their long-biased long/short...

Month in Review – April 2023

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – After ending the first quarter of 2023 on a sour note amid banking turmoil, Nordic hedge funds began the second quarter...

HCP Focus Sells Longest-Held Holding

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – HCP Focus Fund, a long-only equity hedge fund maintaining a concentrated portfolio of 12 companies benefiting from the digital revolution, sold...

Higher Performance Fee for Opportunity

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Swedish asset manager Atlant Fonder is raising the performance fee – the cut from above-benchmark returns – for its largest fund,...

Danske Appoints Head of Quant & Overlay

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Danske Bank Asset Management announced the appointment of Thomas Gade as Head of Quant & Overlay as a successor to Jasper...

Riksbank Shoot Themselves in the Foot

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The Swedish central bank raised the policy rate by 0.5 percentage points to 3.5 percent amid higher-than-expected underlying inflation during the...

Team Evolution at Calculo

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – After starting as a one-person fund boutique in 2018 and becoming a two-person shop in May 2022, Calculo Capital has now...

Waterfall Rowing

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – There is a lot of heterogeneity in the Nordic hedge fund industry. In early 2021, Karl Oscar Strøm made the Nordic...