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Saxo Bank: 30 Years of FinTech Innovation

London (HedgeNordic) – “When we launched in 1992, we were a FinTech before the term was even coined. Being a FinTech is part of...

Optimising Currency Hedging for Funds and Share Classes

London (HedgeNordic) – Regulators have long advocated for an unbundling of foreign exchange services. New technological advances enable an open architecture approach to selecting...

GRIT-ting the Finnish Hedge Fund Industry

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Finland has historically had the lowest number of active hedge funds among the Nordic countries. High barriers to entry, ranging from...

AIFM: “Focus on What You Do Best”

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – No start-up can succeed without a great business idea. Beyond that, there are many factors and details determining whether the idea...

Does the Captain Still Fly?

By Harold de Boer – Transtrend: “How would the investment manager characterize the basic trading approach for this strategy? What percentage is ‘Discretionary’ and...

The Raisons d’être of Managed Futures

By Cliff Asness – AQR Capital Management: The Federal Reserve has an explicit dual mandate. Managed Futures strategies have an implicit one—specifically, 1) deliver positive...

Gaining Momentum: Where Next for Trend-Following?

By Graham Robertson, DPhil – Man AHL: Trend-following indices, such as the SG Trend and BTOP50, have posted their best year-to-end-August returns since 2000,...

Systematic Credit: Accessing Another Asset Class

By Irena Siyi Xiong, Quantitative Researcher – Arabesque IA: Systematic credit has drawn more limelight over the years as electronic trading of various credit...

An Update on A Contemporary Evaluation of Key Alternative Investments

By Dan Rizzuto and Linus Nilsson: In our September 2021 article (HedgeNordic Systematic Strategies, 2021) we sought to evaluate CTAs, Risk Premia, and Hedge...

If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Austrian CTA manager SMN is clocking in at an impressive gain of 85 percent with their SMN Diversified Futures Fund over...

Trend Following: A Regime-Agnostic Strategy

London (HedgeNordic) – The first half of 2022 will be remembered as an exceptional environment for systematic managers who specialize in trend-following, commonly known...

Take Emotion out of the Equation

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Money managers frequently operate in the context of risk and uncertainty, even more so in a market environment coloured by out-of-control...