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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...

60/40 Portfolios and the Need for Smart Diversification

By Artur Sepp (pictured) of Quantica Capital AG: A key question of any institutional investor in times of high equity valuations and record low...

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 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...

Special Report: Systematic Strategies

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - In this special report on Systematic Strategies, Harold de Boer of Transtrend talks about “Zero and its relatives,” Leda Braga and...

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...

2019 Nordic Hedge Award – The Highlights

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In this magazine, we summarize The Highlights from the 2019 Nordic Hedge Award. The character of the final event to the Nordic Hedge...

Old, New Player on a Market that has not seen Defaults in 200 Years

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - One of the notable characteristics in the Nordic hedge fund industry is the strong range of Danish-originating fixedincome funds that often...

The Difficulty of Sticking to Your Guns

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - Hindsight is always 20/20 but it is harder to look ahead with the same certainty. A safe bet is perhaps to...