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Onto the Next Chapter

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Kent Torbjørnsen, the co-founder of Polar Asset Management and its now-closed multi-strategy, multi-asset hedge fund, has been appointed the chief executive...

No One is Shorting

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The year-long reflation trade – the bet that smaller, cheaper, economically-sensitive stocks will rise and traditionally safer bonds, bond-like stocks and...

Net Outflows Return

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The global hedge fund industry ended the first half of this year with a second month of outflows, as investors withdrew...

Hedge Fund Assets Nearing $4 Trillion

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Total hedge fund assets reached an estimated $3.96 trillion at the end of the second quarter, increasing $360 billion from the...

Equities as an Inflation Hedge

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Asbjørn Trolle Hansen, the head of Nordea’s multi-asset investment team, believes that inflation expectations should be a major consideration in asset...

Danish-Originating ARK36 Bolsters Team

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Cryptocurrency hedge fund ARK36, founded by an all-Danish team led by Ulrik K. Lykke, is bolstering its Cyprus-based investment team with...

UBS Backs Women-Led Hedge Funds

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The asset management arm of Swiss bank UBS has launched a portfolio that solely invests in female-led hedge funds in an...

Joining the Family

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Atlant Fonder’s first pure fixed-income vehicle, which gets most of its exposure to corporate bond markets via derivatives, has now joined...

Equities and Alternatives Drive AP1’s Returns

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The Swedish national pension fund Första AP-fonden (AP1), which had SEK 431.5 billion under management at the end of June, enjoyed...

Tvede’s Start-Up Gets Dry Powder

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Forecasting start-up Supertrends, which is generating insights for themes-based macro-focused hedge fund Atlas Global Macro, announced the closing of its Series...

Month in Review – June 2021

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Nordic hedge funds advanced 0.3 percent on average in June (95 percent reported) to end the first half of 2021 up...

Getting High on Confidence

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – With half the year already behind us, both Nordic and global hedge funds enjoyed their best first-half return since 2009. According...