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18/01/2021

Nordic Hedge Funds came out strong in December 2020, clocking in their best year in a decade, the Nordic Hedge Index closing at an all-time high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JD15ZvGoU

Few would have predicted the Nordic Hedge Index would deliver the highest returns in a decade and end the year at an all-time-high after the first quarter of...

20/11/2020

We are looking for a (student?) intern who can help updating our contact database, ideally throughout December. Command of Swedish, Finnish language would be very helpful. If you know someone, send them my way!

25/10/2020

In our Global Macro session, we were able to cover a wide variety of topics, including the investor view on macro, the pros and cons of systematic versus discretionary management, how managers handled the volatility and partial liquidity squeeze during the Covid-crisis, how “work from home” affects managers and investors and much, much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgR7Acva6hY

In this virtual round table on global macro, we were able to cover a wide variety of topics, including the investor view on macro, the pros and cons of syste...

25/10/2020

What a lap!

11/09/2020

In one of the most notable Nordic new hedge fund launches of the year, some of the former team from Nektar got together to start Frost Asset Management. Eugeniu Guzun talks to Frost´s Martin Larsén and Anders Augusén about their views on strategy, performance, and outlook of the fund. https://hedgenordic.com/2020/09/rookie-fund-senior-team/

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In May of last year, Sweden’s oldest hedge fund – Nektar – closed its doors after 21 years. Some of Nektar’s team led by Martin Larsén, Anders Augusén and Johanna Ahlgren got back together to launch a new fund – Frost – that would run one of Nektar’s succe...

18/12/2019

Hedgenordic is pleased to publish our final special report of the year on alternative fixed income strategies. We are revisiting Moma Advisors, who are on track for a vintage year with their Asgard funds, trying to understand the difference between sovereign and corporate EM debt, and getting more insights into Danske ́s fixed-income hedge funds. Formuepleje explains how they are living with negative rates on Danish mortgage bonds, while Sampension lets us in on their viewpoint on negative interest rates.

Arion Banki shares their views on the Icelandic alternative credit market and Credit Fund explains the ESG angle of lending to SME while State Street Global Advisors is pointing out the sweet spot on the carbon reduction curve. The team at QQM makes the bold claim, equity market neutral may actually be the best-fixed income strategy out there while UBS highlights the role of ETF in the fixed income space.

https://hedgenordic.com/2019/12/special-report-alternative-fixed-income-2/

HedgeNordic´s special report on alternative fixed income strategies, is looking to identify how managers trading with various fixed income instruments are tackling a new regime.

18/12/2019

Hedgenordic is pleased to publish our final special report of the year on alternative fixed income strategies. We are revisiting Moma Advisors, who are on track for a vintage year with their Asgard funds, trying to understand the difference between sovereign and corporate EM debt, and getting more insights into Danske ́s fixed-income hedge funds. Formuepleje explains how they are living with negative rates on Danish mortgage bonds, while Sampension lets us in on their viewpoint on negative interest rates.

Arion Banki shares their views on the Icelandic alternative credit market and Credit Fund explains the ESG angle of lending to SME while State Street Global Advisors is pointing out the sweet spot on the carbon reduction curve. The team at QQM makes the bold claim, equity market neutral may actually be the best-fixed income strategy out there while UBS highlights the role of ETF in the fixed income space.

HedgeNordic´s special report on alternative fixed income strategies, is looking to identify how managers trading with various fixed income instruments are tackling a new regime.

20/08/2018

HedgeNordic is pleased to present the latest edition of the Nordic country by country report, highlighting and illustrating the main developments, top performers, biggest hedge funds, and more in each of the four corners of the Nordic hedge fund space.

https://hedgenordic.com/2018/08/nordic-hedge-fund-country-report-q2-2018/

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - HedgeNordic is pleased to present the second edition of the "Nordic hedge fund space: country by country report." This short report

06/04/2018

We´ve been trying to capture and measure the size of the Nordic hedge fund space, and how it has been progressing over the years. Here is an (still imperfect) attempt.

http://hedgenordic.com/2018/04/growth-in-nordic-hedge-fund-industry-slows/

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) For just over a year now, since January 2017, HedgeNordic has been calculating and publishing the NHX asset growth Index (NHX-AGI), an index computed using an equally-weighted indexed-based compounding methodology in an attempt to representatively measure the development of t...

26/03/2018

Pleased to present, fresh from the printers, the 2018 Nordic Hedge Fund Industry Report. This year´s edition with an "in focus section" on multi-managers, and introducing four new launches, next to many, many more interesting stories, movers and shaker.

http://hedgenordic.com/2018/03/nordic-hedge-fund-industry-report-2018/

28/02/2018

Stockholm (NordSIP) – Sustainable solutions have been a driving factor in Storebrand Asset Management’s impressive performance for 2017, its CEO Jan Erik Saugestad said yesterday (February 20th). The Norwegian financial services company’s AUM increased by over 25 per cent over the course of 20...

09/02/2018

Compared to other industry awards, the Nordic Hedge Award is not a pure performance award. In order to also capture components of a fund a hedge fund manager that are hard to evaluate in a quantitative model, the organizer, HedgeNordic, introduced a professional Jury to the scoring system. http://hedgenordic.com/2018/02/jury-board-announced/

In order to also capture components of a fund a hedge fund manager that are hard to evaluate in a quantitative model, the organizer introduced a professional Jury to the scoring system

06/02/2018

Eight hedge funds have been added to the Nordic Hedge Index (NHX) since the beginning of December, five of which joined the NHX family in January.

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Eight hedge funds have been added to the Nordic Hedge Index (NHX) since the beginning of December, five of which joined the NHX family in January. The NHX fund universe now includes 157 funds. Most of these eight funds were born throughout 2017, predominately in the secon...

02/02/2018

Many family offices have not given up on hedge funds. On the contrary, they’re researching more alternative investment funds and committing substantial Dollars to the ones that stand out. “Many of these alternative investment funds are not the big names in the industry. They tend to be extremely
motivated managers at smaller funds.”,
http://hedgenordic.com/2018/02/round-table-family-offices-hedge-funds/

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - While ultimately families are patient investors with investment horizons often spreading across generations, there are flaws with their typical, long-only heavy investments, being at the mercy that markets will go up always and in all periods. Over a five-year bull market,....

11/01/2018

At HedgeNordic, it has become a much-treasured tradition to close the year with a roundtable discussion among systematic macro and CTA managers spiced up with some local allocators. This year, for the first me, we invited our guests not to Stockholm, but to Finland ́s capitol, Helsinki. http://hedgenordic.com/2018/01/round-table-discussion-cta-systematic-macro/

Joining the discussion were the world's leading CTAs and systematic macro funds along with up-and-coming managers with the perspective of smaller shops.

09/11/2017

HedgeNordics´ roundtable in Copenhagen of credit managers, and allocators including pension funds, family offices, insurance companies, and multi -manager fund of funds, discussed their preferred habitats in today’s credit markets – and where they expect to shift exposure towards as market conditions change and evolve.
http://hedgenordic.com/2017/11/rt_alt_fi/

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - HedgeNordics´ roundtable in Copenhagen of credit managers, and allocators including pension funds, family offices, insurance companies

09/11/2017

HedgeNordics´ roundtable in Copenhagen of credit managers, and allocators including pension funds, family offices, insurance companies, and multi -manager fund of funds, discussed their preferred habitats in today’s credit markets – and where they expect to shift exposure towards as market conditions change and evolve.

22/06/2017

HedgeNordic is pleased to announce the publication of its annual industry report covering the latest trends in the Nordic hedge fund industry. This year, we found interesting parallels between hedge funds and sports. Analogies or real-world comparisons span over horse riding, boxing, running, football, yoga and fencing as well as life after the game, great sports clubs and of course, gold medals.

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) - HedgeNordic is pleased to announce the publication of its annual industry report covering the latest trends in the Nordic hedge fund