Stock-picking boutique ALCUR Fonder has announced three new appointments across its investment, trading, and compliance functions. Isak Lenholm joins the investment team with a...
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...
After years of explosive growth and strong returns, private credit is facing its first meaningful stress test, particularly within direct lending, which has become...
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...
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...
Every day, households borrow money to buy homes, finance cars, pay for education, or fund everyday consumption. These mortgages, auto loans, consumer loans, and...
Chinese futures in general add substantial diversification benefits to global futures - and the Chinese commodity futures that dominate certain Aspect Capital strategies also...
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...
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 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...
SEB, the Swedish banking corporation, saw inflows which emphatically surpassed those of other major fund investment providers in Sweden during the first quarter of...
In recent months, the Swedish business industry has seen significant activist investor activity, notably from hedge fund and private equity manager Christer Gardell. Experts...
The European Commission has launched legal action against 24 member countries as they have failed to implement the MiFID-directive into their legislations...
The finance ministers of the European Union will discuss measures to implement greater supervision of hedge funds this week. April 20 (Reuters): The...
The management team of Sandro Naef, Henrik Østergaard Pedersen and Torben Skødeberg has departed Nordea Investment Management and the fixed income fund Nordea Fixed...
An employee with the Swedish hedge fund manager Cevian Capital has, along with three others including a Nordea-employee, been exposed as a partaker in...