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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 to have little in common. Beneath that surface, however, both share a clear appreciation for liquidity, cost efficiency, and transparency. These considerations have led both...

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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...

Stop Making Room for Managed Futures

By Corey Hoffstein, Co-Founder, CEO and CIO at Newfound Research: The case for managed futures as a portfolio diversifier is well established. During the...

Othania Positions Trend-Following at the Core of Multi-Asset Portfolios

Not many investors in the Nordics explicitly allocate to trend-following strategies, yet those who do often regard them as an essential building block in...

Muddling Through the Mess: Managed Futures ETFs

By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk & Portfolio Management: Traditionally, Managed Futures (MF) strategies have been limited to hedge funds known...

There Can Only Be One

By Linus Nilsson of NilssonHedge: In the beginning, CTAs were a cottage industry, focusing on HNW, seeking outsized returns, and deploying notionally funded managed...

High Yield’s Allocation Dilemma in a Tight Spread Market

High-yield bonds have long functioned as a carry-driven return engine in institutional portfolios, offering enhanced income and access to the corporate credit risk premium....

Ridge Capital’s Mantra: “Never Lose Money”

Nordic high-yield-focused fund Ridge Capital Northern Yield has emerged as one of the standout newcomers on the Nordic fund scene. Since launching in January...

Folketrygdfondet on Nordic High Yield: More Global, but Is It More Resilient?

While Norway’s global sovereign wealth giant, the Government Pension Fund Global, widely known as the Oil Fund, invests trillions across international markets, its lesser-known...

Core, Satellite, and Structural Premiums: PensionDanmark’s Approach to Emerging Market Debt

Many institutional investors have gradually internalized mandates once awarded to external managers, seeking tighter cost control, greater transparency, and improved alignment. Emerging market debt...