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Swiss Family Office Seeks $5 Million Allocation to Liquid Alternatives

A Swiss family office is seeking to allocate $5 million to liquid alternative investment strategies, including hedge funds, managed futures, commodities, and funds providing...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...
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In-Depth: Multi-Strategy Investing

The Benefits of Multi-Manager Portfolios in CTA Investing

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

Why Some Nordic Allocators Prefer Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds

Many institutional allocators spend years building portfolios of single-strategy...

Allocators Seek Sharpe, Not Spectacle When Opting for Multi Managers

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

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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...

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Why Some Nordic Allocators Prefer Multi-Strategy Hedge Funds

Many institutional allocators spend years building portfolios of single-strategy hedge funds across different asset classes, geographies, and investment...

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The Energy Hedge Fund Center has announced a major new multi-client study into global energy markets. The study will review all energy and environmental...

IFI WEEKLY ALTERNATIVES: Funds of hedge funds outperform

Funds of dollar denominated hedge funds rated by Standard & Poor's Fund Services returned a median 8.7% in 2005. This beat the indices of...

Funds of hedge funds suffer as top 50 managers take control

The top 50 hedge fund firms now control 40% of the global market March 21 (Portfolio International): According to a report by Morgan Stanley,...

S&P Launches Pioneering Service for Valuing European Structured Finance Bonds

New initiative responds to growing concerns about illiquidity and opaque pricing of asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities in Europe March 20: Standard & Poor’s,...

Strength in energy boosts commodity indexes, may start investor wave

Invigorated price strength in energy and base metals have given a positive shove to commodity indices, a development that may cause a wave of...

Danske Hedge European Nordic Mortgage Arbitrage Fund has joined the Hedgenordic NHX hedge fund index

The Danish fixed income hedge fund Danske Hedge European Nordic Mortgage Arbitrage Fund is the newest fund to join the Hedgenordic index and database....

Sweet: Sugar may be the best investment of the year

Sugar may beat bonds, stocks and oil for the second year in a row. March 20 (Bloomberg): Sugar, the best-performing commodity the past 12...

Further analysis shows analysts are wrong, a lot

Inaccuracies are legion in analysis reports, yet investors still put faith in them. March 19 (Charlotte.com): Despite public humiliation for a handful of analysts...

IFI WEEKLY ALTERNATIVES: Smaller prime brokers riskier

Credit-rating analysts and other risk watchers are worried about smaller prime brokers, according to the Wall Street Journal.  In an effort to challenge established...

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