After more than seven years at Coeli, energy-focused portfolio managers Joel Etzler and Vidar Kalvoy are leaving the Stockholm-based boutique for what they describe...
Infrastructure has traditionally been viewed as one of the more defensive corners of private markets, characterized by essential services, stable cash flows, and hard-asset...
As businesses stay private for longer, an increasing share of value creation now happens away from public exchanges, forcing investors to rethink where they...
Private markets have expanded far beyond traditional private equity, private credit, and infrastructure investing. Among the more specialized corners of the alternatives universe sits...
While parts of the private equity industry have faced a challenging dealmaking environment in recent years, Nordic mid-market buyout manager Summa Equity has navigated...
By Alexandra Voss, CFA at SEB: Private markets are no longer in retreat, but the rebound is selective and unevenly distributed. Returns were positive...
Every day, households borrow money to buy homes, finance cars, pay for education, or fund everyday consumption. These mortgages, auto loans, consumer loans, and...
After years of explosive growth and strong returns, private credit is facing its first meaningful stress test, particularly within direct lending, which has become...
By Liam Hynes, PhD – S&P Global Market Intelligence: Systematic investing has always been a story of expanding information sets. Prices, then fundamentals, then...
By Fredrik Langenskiöld – Union Bancaire Privée: Multi-strategy funds are those that allocate to more than one alternative strategy or portfolio manager (PM) in...
At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous. Many managers trade the same liquid futures markets and rely on systematic, trendfollowing models that...
Chinese futures in general add substantial diversification benefits to global futures - and the Chinese commodity futures that dominate certain Aspect Capital strategies also...
By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk & Portfolio Management AB: For many investors, manager selection ultimately comes down to intuition, whether...
By Andrew Beer, Co-Founder of DBi: After a decade of studying CTAs, we have drawn three conclusions about the nature of their alpha generation. At the...
A sharp escalation in geopolitical tensions set the tone for March, as the US and Israel’s attacks on Iran triggered significant cross-asset volatility. In...
By Corey Hoffstein, Co-Founder, CEO and CIO at Newfound Research: The case for managed futures as a portfolio diversifier is well established. During the...
Not many investors in the Nordics explicitly allocate to trend-following strategies, yet those who do often regard them as an essential building block in...
By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk & Portfolio Management: Traditionally, Managed Futures (MF) strategies have been limited to hedge funds known...
By Linus Nilsson of NilssonHedge: In the beginning, CTAs were a cottage industry, focusing on HNW, seeking outsized returns, and deploying notionally funded managed...
Since launching Protean Select as an opportunistic long/short equity hedge fund in 2022, Pontus Dackmo and his team have emphasized a clear priority: returns...
Atlas Global Macro, last year’s top-performing Nordic hedge fund, is becoming more accessible to Danish investors through a newly launched feeder fund on the...
Commodities-focused asset manager Svelland Capital has strengthened its research team with the appointment of Laurent Hoffmann as Head of Quantitative Research. Hoffmann brings a...
Carl Johan Lagercrantz, a fixed-income portfolio manager at alternative fund boutique Atlant Fonder, has joined Lannebo Fonder as a high-yield portfolio manager. The firm...