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The Diversifying Power of Chinese Futures Markets

London (HedgeNordic) – Institutional investors who started allocating to equities in mainland China have increasingly diversified into government bonds, corporate credit and the growing...

Prepared for Inflation

By Harold de Boer – Transtrend: Reflation is a trending topic in the investment community this year. And the reflation trend has been the...

Quantamental – The Best of Both Worlds

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Linköping-based money manager Alexander Hyll relies on a quantamental approach to run long/ short equity fund Adaptive Paradigm Alpha, seeking to...

Three Centuries of Systematic Trading

London (HedgeNordic) - Systematic and quantitative are interchangeable terms. They involve using a model, formula, rule or algorithm, rather than discretion or judgement, to...

Two Horses´ Butts

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - It is probably not much more than a decade ago that many quant managers took pride in repeatedly claiming that their...

All-Weather Sailing

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – It is inherently essential to catch the upside, but arguably, even more important to protect the downside to achieve long-term wealth...

ATP’s Smart Beta Approach

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – ATP, Europe’s fourth-largest pension fund, runs an investment portfolio and a hedging portfolio, “with the hedging portfolio taking care of the...

Private Debt and Investing in the Real Economy

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – We caught up with Nina Jahanbin, Head of Nordics at Union Bancaire Privée (UBP), Colin Greene, Head of Private Debt at...

Transitioning Towards a Sustainable Economy

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – There are different opinions about the speed, strength and persistence of the economic recovery, but very few economists entertain the possibility...

Nordic Institutions Embracing Private Markets

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Historically, US pension funds had larger allocations to alternatives but Europe may be catching up: as of 2018, European pension funds...

A Flexible Structure for Private Markets

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The long-awaited Irish Limited Partnership (ILP) investment vehicle structure is attracting strong interest from clients at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)...

Small and Mid-Cap Private Equity

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Small and mid-cap private equity, a segment which Flexstone broadly define as funds between USD 150 million and USD 1,5billion, and...