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Business as Usual for Accendo

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Accendo Capital may have started off 2020 on the wrong foot after suffering its worst month on record in February, but...

Thriving on COVID-19 Challenges

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Digitalization has certainly mitigated the impact of COVID-19 on businesses, economies and personal lives. After all, digitalization offers the vital infrastructure...

Fundies vs. Quants

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In finance, we too often like to think in buckets. Assets are classified as either growth or value, investment products as...

An Almost Impossible Feat to Copy

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Fifteen years after its launch at the beginning of 2005, Danske Invest Hedge Fixed Income Strategies has become one the largest...

Alternative Markets Amidst Covid Turmoil

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Since 2016, Austrian CTA SMN has been trading its Structural Alpha Trend program as part of its flagship SMN Diversified Futures...

A New Climate for Systematic Investing?

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – No one can really know what will be the long-term consequences of the recent market and economic turmoil. Aspect Capital holds...

Zero and its Relatives

By Harold de Boer of Transtrend – One day the thermometer reads 10 °C; the next day 15 °C. Did it get 50% warmer?...

Revisiting Trend-Following CTAs

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Many trend-following CTAs have profited in the first quarter of 2020, and most of Systematica’s various trend-following strategies have outperformed the...

The Aggressive High-Quality Investor

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Many hedge fund managers steer clear of large- and mega-cap stocks and mostly go for the under-researched corners of equity markets...

The 8th Wonder of the World

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The might of compound interest has become part of asset management pop-culture at least since Albert Einstein’s quotation that compound interest was the...

Sanity Checking Momentum and Trend

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In February 2020 Finnish asset manager Northern Star Partners launched a new fund, NS Quant, to capture positive and negative price...

Positives Amid an Epidemic of Unknowns

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The first quarter of 2020 was difficult for most investors, including large pension funds such as AP1, the first Swedish national...