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Finland’s pension investors are entering a new phase as regulatory changes allow them to increase their equity exposure and raise long-term return expectations. For Elo, Finland’s third-largest private-sector pension insurance company, that shift coincided with a particularly strong first half of 2026. Elo’s investments returned 6.4 percent in the...

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AI Isn’t the Transformation. Your Hedge Fund Operating Model Is.

By Ashish Shrestha, Senior Solutions Consultant at MAIA Technology: Artificial intelligence is moving quickly from experimentation towards implementation across the hedge fund industry. For...

The Lifecycle of a Trade: Where Nordic Managers Win or Lose Their Edge

Placing the trade is the easy part, but it is only as good as everything around it. The edge is rarely won at the...

Diversification is Easy to Buy, Hard to Get: The Liquid Alternatives Test

By Luc Dumontier, CIO Global Asset Management, iM Global Partner: Rarely have global portfolios carried such concentrated exposure to a single bet. US equities...

Unlocking a Third Active Lever

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...

Active and Alternative ETFs Gain Ground as Market Splits Between Cost and Value

The ETF market is entering a new phase in which growth is increasingly concentrated at opposite ends of the cost spectrum. While ultra-low-cost passive...

Beyond Passive: How Institutional Investors Are Reshaping Europe’s ETF Market

Flows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to show little sign of slowing, but the record asset growth tells only part of the story. Beneath...

Man Group: The Pod-Shop Model Isn’t the Only Way

The rise of the multi-strategy “pod-shop” model has been one of the defining trends in the hedge fund industry over the past decade. Rather...

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...