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Nordic Hedge Funds End Summer on a Strong Note

After a brief dip in July, Nordic hedge funds ended the summer on a strong note, gaining an average of 1.5 percent in August....

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In-Depth: Active and Alternative ETFs

Unlocking a Third Active Lever

By Steven Braun at Newfound Research and Return Stacked®...

Beyond Passive: How Institutional Investors Are Reshaping Europe’s ETF Market

Flows into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) continue to show little...

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Tracking Trend: A Closer Look at Managed Futures Index Replication

By Kathryn M. Kaminski and Yingshan Zhao at AlphaSimplex...

Active Decisions in Passive Wrappers: Othania on ETF Innovation

Founded in early 2016 by brothers Vincent Dilling-Larsen and...

Navigating CLOs Through ETFs: Opportunities in AAA-Rated Tranches

By UBS Asset Management: Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) have long...

From Core to Alternatives: The ETF-Driven Approach of a Finnish Wealth Manager

Wealth managers are tasked with designing investment portfolios that...

In-Depth: Multi-Strategy Investing

Tidan Builds Multi-Strategy Platform Around Diversified Alpha Engines

What began as a natural evolution of Tidan Capital’s...

HSBC’s Three Decades of Building Hedge Fund Portfolios

Hedge fund investing has become increasingly institutionalized and resource-intensive,...

The Benefits of Multi-Manager Portfolios in CTA Investing

At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous....

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Systematic Multi-Strategy as a Portfolio Diversifier

By Fredrik Langenskiöld – Union Bancaire Privée: Multi-strategy funds...

Allocators Seek Sharpe, Not Spectacle When Opting for Multi Managers

Global allocators are once again paying closer attention to...

OP’s R2 Crystal Sees Stronger Case for Hedge Funds

For much of the past decade, hedge funds struggled...

In-Depth: CTA ETFs

Two Allocators, One View: Liquidity, Cost and Control Behind CTA ETF Adoption

On the surface, Morten Christensen, Chief Financial Officer at...

Maybe CTA Alpha is Simpler Than You Think: Evidence from the ETF Space

By Andrew Beer, Co-Founder of DBi: Managers of CTA hedge funds...

Othania Positions Trend-Following at the Core of Multi-Asset Portfolios

Not many investors in the Nordics explicitly allocate to...

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Build Your Index

By Harold de Boer, Managing Director and Head of...

Stop Making Room for Managed Futures

By Corey Hoffstein, Co-Founder, CEO and CIO at Newfound...

Muddling Through the Mess: Managed Futures ETFs

By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk...

There Can Only Be One

By Linus Nilsson of NilssonHedge: In the beginning, CTAs...

In-Depth: High Yield

Ridge Capital’s Mantra: “Never Lose Money”

Nordic high-yield-focused fund Ridge Capital Northern Yield has emerged...

PIMCO: Similar Yields, Better Risk Profile in European High Yield

The U.S. high yield market has long been regarded...

Avoiding the Echo Chamber: Kraft’s Playbook in Tighter High-Yield Market

Delivering strong returns during a market rebound is one...

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Folketrygdfondet on Nordic High Yield: More Global, but Is It More Resilient?

While Norway’s global sovereign wealth giant, the Government Pension...

High-Yield Bonds Knock Out Stocks

Nordic high-yield bonds and the managers specializing in them...

Benchmark-Plus High-Yield Investing at LD Pensions

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Danish pension fund LD Pensions manages...

In-Depth: Emerging Markets

Veritas Looks Beyond Benchmarks to Frontier Markets for Carry

After several years of strong performance in fixed income,...

The Emerging Markets Revival and the Case for Systematic, Diversified Exposure

Emerging market equities outperformed developed markets in 2025 for...

Emerging Markets Back in Focus, but Still a Satellite Allocation at Folksam

Emerging markets have spent much of the past decade...

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AP2 Extends Systematic Approach to Emerging Markets Bonds

Systematic investing has become a widely embraced approach in...

Veritas Rethinks Emerging Market Exposure: Shift to “Ex-China” Allocations

Emerging market investing has never been a one-size-fits-all approach,...

AP2’s Quant Approach to EM Equities: Balancing Risk, Return, and Sustainability

With some SEK 460 billion under management across virtually...

AP3 Re-Enters Emerging Markets with a Fresh Lens

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Sweden’s buffer fund, AP3 Tredje AP-fonden,...

In-Depth: Diversification in a Correlated World

AP3’s Tactical Layer: A New Dimension of Diversification

Diversification is often discussed in terms of broad asset...

Diversifying with Gold and Silver: Why Miners Amplify Opportunity

In the institutional investor’s world, diversification is not a...

SilverDome One: Building Resilience in a Correlated World

In early 2023, two Swedes who had spent six...

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Trade-off Between Illiquidity and Rebalancing Premium

In the search for diversification and higher returns, institutional...

Diversification in the Era of Monetary Reset

Diversification has long been a cornerstone of investing, designed...

AP3’s Tactical Layer: A New Dimension of Diversification

Diversification is often discussed in terms of broad asset...

Diversifying with Gold and Silver: Why Miners Amplify Opportunity

In the institutional investor’s world, diversification is not a...

Private Markets

Private Equity No Longer Optional as Value Creation Moves Behind Closed Doors

As businesses stay private for longer, an increasing share of value creation now happens away from public exchanges, forcing investors to rethink where they...

Financing the Energy Buildout: The Growing Role of Infrastructure Credit

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...

Direct Lending Goes Through First Proper Credit Cycle 

After years of explosive growth and strong returns, private credit is facing its first meaningful stress test, particularly within direct lending, which has become...

A Decade of Thematic Private Equity: Summa Equity Sees Stronger Tailwinds Than Ever

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...

A Rebound with a Bottleneck

By Alexandra Voss, CFA at SEB: Private markets are no longer in retreat, but the rebound is selective and unevenly distributed. Returns were positive...

More Unknowns, More Dispersion in Private Equity

Private credit managers with exposure to software companies recently faced investor withdrawals as concerns mounted over how artificial intelligence could disrupt parts of the...

Litigation Finance Emerges as an Uncorrelated Corner of Private Markets

Private markets have expanded far beyond traditional private equity, private credit, and infrastructure investing. Among the more specialized corners of the alternatives universe sits...

Private Markets Are Not the Problem

Formue is the largest privately owned wealth management firm in the Nordics, overseeing and advising on a total of NOK 250 billion with 425...

Systematic Strategies

Finding Alpha: Strategy vs. Manager Selection. What Actually Drives Returns?

By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk & Portfolio Management AB: For many investors, manager selection ultimately comes down to intuition, whether...

Not So Lazy Prices

By Liam Hynes, PhD – S&P Global Market Intelligence: Systematic investing has always been a story of expanding information sets. Prices, then fundamentals, then...

The Benefits of Multi-Manager Portfolios in CTA Investing

At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous. Many managers trade the same liquid futures markets and rely on systematic, trendfollowing models that...

Beyond 60/40: The Case for Liquid, Systematic Diversification

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...

Dispersion – High or Low? It Depends

By Linus Nilsson at NilssonHedge: Dispersion matters. If dispersion is high, there are two strategies for a fund selector. The first is to try...

CTAs and Alpha Generation: Is Efficient Implementation the Answer?

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...

Systematic Merger Arbitrage in 2026: Why a Rules-based Approach Matters More Than Ever

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...

Horse Racing and Maretocracy

By Thomas Babbedge at GreshamQuant: I first went to the Exeter Racecourse when I was thirteen years old with the girl next-door. I don't remember where...

Allocator Interviews

More Unknowns, More Dispersion in Private Equity

Private credit managers with exposure to software companies recently faced investor withdrawals as concerns mounted over how artificial...

Allocators on the Move

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There are multiple ways to approach equity investing and, ultimately, the pursuit of alpha. While many strategies rely on market direction or discretionary stock...

Apoteket CIO Leans on Hedge Funds for High Sharpe

Gustav Karner, Chief Investment Officer of Apoteket’s Pension Fund since 2017, has delivered one of the highest Sharpe ratios among Sweden’s largest institutional investors,...

Ress Launches Euro Feeder as Life Settlements Enter a Higher-Return Regime

In the decade leading up to 2023, Ress Life Investments generated annualized returns in excess of 6 percent in a persistently low interest rate...

Building Liquidity Around an Illiquid Core at Aars

Morten Christensen, Chief Financial Officer of Norwegian family office Aars, has effectively built the structure of the investment management of the family office from...

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Nordic Hedge Fund Industry Report 2026

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How NBIM is Quietly Shaping the Norwegian Hedge Fund Landscape

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), the manager of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, better known as the oil fund, is widely recognised for overseeing...

Asilo, PriorNilsson Among LSEG Lipper Nordic Winners

Two funds from the Nordic Hedge Index universe were among the winners at this year’s LSEG Lipper Fund Awards for the Nordic region. Asilo...

Protean Hires IR Manager Ahead of Global Launch

Having recently moved to limit inflows into its opportunistic long/short equity fund, Protean Funds Scandinavia is now expanding on another front, strengthening its investor...

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