Finland’s Varma is one of several large Nordic asset owners that has been moving towards a more holistic view of the portfolio – some time before a total portfolio approach turned into a much-hyped concept. Varma’s deputy CEO and CIO Markus Aho says that while the € 71.4 billion...
Shorting Nordic small and mid-cap stocks requires more than identifying companies whose valuations appear stretched. Limited borrow availability, thin trading volumes, and unpredictable price...
Small caps are trading at a historically wide valuation discount to large caps, creating a potentially attractive long-term opportunity even as the valuation gap...
European small and mid-cap equities are entering a potentially more constructive phase as Europe’s push for economic and strategic sovereignty coincides with improving domestic...
The AI-driven rally in mega-cap stocks has widened the performance gap between large and small caps, leaving smaller companies trailing across global equity markets....
By Aditya Jha at Itoflow: Multi-manager hedge funds have an enviable problem. Assets at the platforms tracked by Goldman Sachs increased by more than 25% over...
Active management is increasingly finding a home in the ETF wrapper as investors look beyond traditional index-tracking strategies for more targeted sources of alpha....
ETFs have become an increasingly versatile tool in institutional portfolios, moving beyond tactical market access and liquidity management to serve as strategic building blocks....
By Ashish Shrestha, Senior Solutions Consultant at MAIA Technology: Artificial intelligence is moving quickly from experimentation towards implementation across the hedge fund industry. For...
By Luc Dumontier, CIO Global Asset Management, iM Global Partner: Rarely have global portfolios carried such concentrated exposure to a single bet. US equities...
By Steven Braun at Newfound Research and Return Stacked® Portfolio Solutions: Long-only active management traditionally has two levers for generating excess returns. The first...
