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Many institutional allocators spend years building portfolios of single-strategy hedge funds across different asset classes, geographies, and investment styles. Yet there is also a distinct subset of investors that prefer to access hedge fund alpha through large multi-manager and multi-strategy platforms. The appeal lies not only in diversified return...

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Tidan Builds Multi-Strategy Platform Around Diversified Alpha Engines

What began as a natural evolution of Tidan Capital’s expanding investment platform has quickly become the asset manager’s flagship offering. As institutional investors increasingly...

Systematic Multi-Strategy as a Portfolio Diversifier

By Fredrik Langenskiöld – Union Bancaire Privée: Multi-strategy funds are those that allocate to more than one alternative strategy or portfolio manager (PM) in...

HSBC’s Three Decades of Building Hedge Fund Portfolios

Hedge fund investing has become increasingly institutionalized and resource-intensive, requiring access to specialized managers alongside deep due diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and ongoing...

The Benefits of Multi-Manager Portfolios in CTA Investing

At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous. Many managers trade the same liquid futures markets and rely on systematic, trendfollowing models that...

Why Some Nordic Allocators Prefer Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds

Many institutional allocators spend years building portfolios of single-strategy hedge funds across different asset classes, geographies, and investment styles. Yet there is also a...

Allocators Seek Sharpe, Not Spectacle When Opting for Multi Managers

Global allocators are once again paying closer attention to multi-strategy and multi-manager hedge fund solutions. But unlike the years before the financial crisis, the...

OP’s R2 Crystal Sees Stronger Case for Hedge Funds

For much of the past decade, hedge funds struggled to compete against strong beta-driven markets fueled by ultra-low interest rates and abundant liquidity. But...

What if the Rules Changed?

The idea back in 2010 to launch a platform that would cover the Nordic hedge fund space came hand ind hand with another aspiration....

Build Your Index

By Harold de Boer, Managing Director and Head of R&D at Transtrend: The SG CTA and SG Trend indices are nearing their 25th anniversary. While CTAs...

CTA / Trend Following ETFs: Access, Implementation, and the Question of Completeness

By Jerry Parker, Founder and CEO of Chesapeake Capital: The growth of CTA and trend following ETFs has expanded access to systematic strategies, but it...

Two Allocators, One View: Liquidity, Cost and Control Behind CTA ETF Adoption

On the surface, Morten Christensen, Chief Financial Officer at Norwegian family office Aars, and Jonas Thulin, Chief Investment Officer at Sweden’s AP3, may appear...

Maybe CTA Alpha is Simpler Than You Think: Evidence from the ETF Space

By Andrew Beer, Co-Founder of DBi: Managers of CTA hedge funds and mutual funds often argue that complexity leads to higher alpha generation. After all, why...