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“There Are Weeks When Decades Happen”: Asilo’s Best Month Since Launch

As the saying often attributed to Vladimir Lenin goes, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen.” That is...

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The New Coda: From Intuition to a Unified Investment Process

Peter Andersland is best known in the Nordic hedge fund space as the co-founder of Sector Asset Management, where he remains a shareholder. While...

Extracting Alpha from the Factor Zoo Through Systematic Investing

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

Tidan NOVA Profiting from Volatility Skew as Market Participants Seek Protection

Tidan Capital’s evolution into a multi-strategy platform reflects a broader effort to deliver complementary sources of alpha, with its NOVA strategy serving as a...

When Diversification Fails: Qblue’s Case for Alternative Risk Premia

The notion that a traditional 60/40 portfolio offers meaningful diversification has long been questioned by practitioners. When implementing the Total Portfolio Approach at Danish...

Elo’s Slow-Moving Hedge Fund Portfolio Built Around Access

Soon after Kari Vatanen joined Finnish pension insurer Elo as Head of Asset Allocation and Alternatives, he praised the team behind the firm’s hedge...

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...

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,...

Data, AI, and the Quest for Edge in Hedge Funds

When boarding a plane, most passengers instinctively glance into the cockpit. Even though modern aircraft largely operate on autopilot, the presence of a pilot...
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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...

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...

The Awkward Problem with Managed Futures ETFs

By Andrew Beer, Co-Founder of DBi and Co-Portfolio Manager:...

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Schroders Brings Active Strategies to Europe Through UCITS ETFs

The Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) market in the United...

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...

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Elo’s Slow-Moving Hedge Fund Portfolio Built Around Access

Soon after Kari Vatanen joined Finnish pension insurer Elo as Head of Asset Allocation and Alternatives, he praised...

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Hedge fund launches seen as new trend among Swedish financial industry professionals

The past year has seen several new hedge funds sprout up in Sweden, all started by break-aways from high profile financial companies. According to...

Swedish industry professionals launch hedge fund with a Nordic/emerging market focus

A new hedge fund with both a Nordic and an emerging market focus has seen the light of day. It is launched by Jonas...

Ithaca College Study Shows Hedge Funds Outperformed S&P Over 15 Years

An Ithaca College study presented to the Annual Global Business Conference in November 2006 showed that hedge funds outperformed Standard & Poors 500 index...

3C Asset Management adds to portfolio management team

3C Asset Management has appointed Mikael Vikström as portfolio manager. He will join the portfolio management team for the funds Mandatum Omega and Mandatum...

Regulators see dangers in hedge fund collateral

Regulators all over the world have voiced concern at the collateral backing loans given by investment banks to hedge funds. January 30 (Financial...

Swedish hedge funds singled out at the 2006 EuroHedge Awards

Three Swedish hedge funds were up for one of the hedge fund industry’s top honours as trade publication EuroHedge hosted the 2006 EuroHedge Awards....

New Watson Wyatt Report: Alpha/Beta Separation & Integration is #3 Trend for 2007

According to Watson Wyatt, alpha/beta separation is going to be a crucial element of change for pension fund investment during the year. This year,...

Orkla Finans sees prosperity thanks to alternative investments

Orkla Finans, the financial services company of the Norwegian Orkla corporation, has experienced business growth during recent years. One reason for this is the success...

The Swedish Shareholders’ Association to combat hedge fund activism

By implementing new rules for ownership control, the Swedish Shareholders’ Association has moved to limit the activities of activist investors such as Christer Gardell...

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