Danish boutique asset manager Asset Adviser has appointed Frank Sørensen as Senior Strategist, less than a year after Stonehenge Fondsmæglerselskab, the Danish asset manager...
As businesses stay private for longer, an increasing share of value creation now happens away from public exchanges, forcing investors to rethink where they...
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...
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...
Private credit managers with exposure to software companies recently faced investor withdrawals as concerns mounted over how artificial intelligence could disrupt parts of the...
Every day, households borrow money to buy homes, finance cars, pay for education, or fund everyday consumption. These mortgages, auto loans, consumer loans, and...
Private markets have expanded far beyond traditional private equity, private credit, and infrastructure investing. Among the more specialized corners of the alternatives universe sits...
By Alexandra Voss, CFA at SEB: Private markets are no longer in retreat, but the rebound is selective and unevenly distributed. Returns were positive...
By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk & Portfolio Management AB: For many investors, manager selection ultimately comes down to intuition, whether...
By Bjarne Graven Larsen: For decades during the great moderation, the 60/40 portfolio was the institutional investor's Swiss army knife. Equities grew wealth; bonds...
By Scott Schefrin, Portfolio Manager at AB Hedge Fund Solutions: After a series of slower years for deal activity, merger arbitrage has re-emerged as a compelling strategy...
By Fredrik Langenskiöld – Union Bancaire Privée: Multi-strategy funds are those that allocate to more than one alternative strategy or portfolio manager (PM) in...
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 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...
On the surface, Morten Christensen, Chief Financial Officer at Norwegian family office Aars, and Jonas Thulin, Chief Investment Officer at Sweden’s AP3, may appear...
By Andrew Beer, Co-Founder of DBi: Managers of CTA hedge funds and mutual funds often argue that complexity leads to higher alpha generation. After all, why...
March was defined by a sharp escalation in geopolitical tensions, particularly involving the U.S., Israel, and Iran, creating a highly challenging environment for most investment...
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...
