Norwegian boutique Norselab Credit Management is launching its fourth fund in less than four years, expanding its credit platform into the highly cyclical shipping,...
After years of explosive growth and strong returns, private credit is facing its first meaningful stress test, particularly within direct lending, which has become...
As businesses stay private for longer, an increasing share of value creation now happens away from public exchanges, forcing investors to rethink where they...
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...
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...
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...
Private markets have expanded far beyond traditional private equity, private credit, and infrastructure investing. Among the more specialized corners of the alternatives universe sits...
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 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...
By Liam Hynes, PhD – S&P Global Market Intelligence: Systematic investing has always been a story of expanding information sets. Prices, then fundamentals, then...
By Alexander Mende and Per Ivarsson at RPM Risk & Portfolio Management AB: For many investors, manager selection ultimately comes down to intuition, whether...
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...
At first glance, CTA investing can appear deceptively homogeneous. Many managers trade the same liquid futures markets and rely on systematic, trendfollowing models that...
Financial advisors and their clients are getting a lot more comfortable with hedge funds March 22 (Dow Jones): Financial advisors and their clients are...
A new Mercer survey shows the use of alternative investments continues to increase, in particular active management or so-called ‘alpha’ strategies. A new Mercer...
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...
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,...
The Danish fixed income hedge fund Danske Hedge European Nordic Mortgage Arbitrage Fund is the newest fund to join the Hedgenordic index and database....