When HedgeNordic spoke with Tommi Kemppainen in early 2019, the CEO of Helsinki Capital Partners outlined a defensive positioning for the multi-strategy fund HCP...
The Manager Selection team at SEB Asset Management published their annual Private Markets Report in early April, which explores the shifting momentum across private...
By Christoph Junge: Over the course of my career working with strategic asset allocation and alternative investments, I’ve often found myself reflecting on a...
Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs) play an important role in credit markets by bridging the capital needs of corporate borrowers with the return objectives of...
Danish pension provider Velliv has recently overhauled its investment strategy, placing greater emphasis on low-cost, index-based strategies in response to shifting client preferences. In...
“Every financial innovation starts in the United States, then moves to Europe after five to ten years, and eventually reaches emerging markets another decade...
By Christian Munafo – Liberty Street Advisors: Many investors have legitimate concerns regarding potential impacts of both recent tariff announcements made by the US...
Infrastructure across many parts of the world is either decades old or, in some regions, barely existent. Against this backdrop, the need for infrastructure...
Private equity has matured into a mainstream – if not cornerstone – allocation for institutional investors. Following years of record fundraising and valuation expansion,...
Almost 1500 market participants have agreed to abide by new market practices for trading credit derivatives. According to ISDA this sets a new record...
November 25 (Reuters): Morgan Stanley recently offered to buy $5 billion hedge fund FrontPoint Partners, but a deal never materialized because the two parties...
Standard & Poor’s has gone together with Soliton Inc. to manage the acquisition and integration of S&P securities and reference data for financial clients....
In its growth plans for the future, Morgan Stanley envisions greater focus on alternative asset classes and non-US markets. November 24 (Global Money Management/Institutional...
Man Group, the buyer of Refco’s main futures assets has agreed to sell Refco’s European assets to Marathon Asset Management. November 24 (Bloomberg): Man...
Norwegian mail company Posten Norge has made a 236 million SEK bid on Swedish counterpart Optimail. Optimail’s biggest shareholder, the Brummer hedge fund Zenit, is...