Stockholm-based asset manager Alfakraft Fonder has entered into a strategic partnership with crypto specialist Bitwise to develop regulated digital asset investment solutions for professional...
Every day, households borrow money to buy homes, finance cars, pay for education, or fund everyday consumption. These mortgages, auto loans, consumer loans, and...
By Alexandra Voss, CFA at SEB: Private markets are no longer in retreat, but the rebound is selective and unevenly distributed. Returns were positive...
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...
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 credit managers with exposure to software companies recently faced investor withdrawals as concerns mounted over how artificial intelligence could disrupt parts of the...
At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous. Many managers trade the same liquid futures markets and rely on systematic, trendfollowing models that...
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...
By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk & Portfolio Management AB: For many investors, manager selection ultimately comes down to intuition, whether...
By Liam Hynes, PhD – S&P Global Market Intelligence: Systematic investing has always been a story of expanding information sets. Prices, then fundamentals, then...
Chinese futures in general add substantial diversification benefits to global futures - and the Chinese commodity futures that dominate certain Aspect Capital strategies also...
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...
The Nordic hedge funds, like hedge funds everywhere, continued to perform negatively during June, generating a final composite index return of -0.30%, a further...
A considerable number of Swedish fund professionals are upping their investment in Nordea stock after the banking corporation recently presented a healthy...
Hedge fund manager organisation AIMA has focuses on the changes soon to come for the industry as the EU Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) becomes...
Danish banking corporation Jyske Bank’s asset management division Jyske Invest has launched its first onshore hedge fund. The fund is a market neutral equity...
According to Swedish daily Dagens Industri, the hedge fund Zenit, managed by Scandinavia’s biggest hedge fund firm Brummer and Partners, has sold off its...
