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Avoiding the Echo Chamber: Kraft’s Playbook in Tighter High-Yield Market

Delivering strong returns during a market rebound is one thing. Preserving performance momentum once spreads tighten and dispersion fades is another. That was the...

Veritas Looks Beyond Benchmarks to Frontier Markets for Carry

After several years of strong performance in fixed income, the easy gains in credit markets appear largely exhausted. With corporate spreads now hovering near...

The Emerging Markets Revival and the Case for Systematic, Diversified Exposure

Emerging market equities outperformed developed markets in 2025 for the first time in several years, prompting investors to reassess the strategic role of the...

Emerging Markets Back in Focus, but Still a Satellite Allocation at Folksam

Emerging markets have spent much of the past decade testing investors’ patience. After years of trailing U.S. equities, the asset class finally turned the...

Why Invest in Emerging and Frontier Markets in 2026?

By Jacob Grapengiesser, David Nicholls and Peter Elam Håkansson at East Capital: 2025 was a fantastic year for emerging and frontier markets, which shrugged...

Trade-off Between Illiquidity and Rebalancing Premium

In the search for diversification and higher returns, institutional investors worldwide have steadily increased their exposure to illiquid asset classes such as private equity,...

Diversification in the Era of Monetary Reset

Diversification has long been a cornerstone of investing, designed to balance risk across different markets and asset classes. But with fiat currencies under persistent...

AP3’s Tactical Layer: A New Dimension of Diversification

Diversification is often discussed in terms of broad asset allocation. For Jonas Thulin, the CIO of the Third Swedish National Pension Fund (AP3), diversification...

Diversifying with Gold and Silver: Why Miners Amplify Opportunity

In the institutional investor’s world, diversification is not a slogan but an ongoing pursuit. While new strategies may come and go, some diversifiers have...

SilverDome One: Building Resilience in a Correlated World

In early 2023, two Swedes who had spent six years working together at one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, the Abu Dhabi...

Investors Rethink Defense and ESG

Several banks and pension giants still have ESG rules that in practice exclude defense stocks. But new figures reveals that something is happening in...

Active Ownership – The Merchant’s Challenge

By Arne Simensen and Jakob Gravdal at Anchora Capital: In the Dutch Golden Age, Isaac Le Maire, initial largest shareholder in the world's first...