The Nordic Brief
Valuation Bifurcation Persists
We sit down with Jupiter´s James Clunie to discuss value vs growth and why it´s time that the markets again will recognise fundamental value....
Credit Market Outlook: Selection and Name-Picking Key
We asked Aperture Investors’ Chief CIO, Simon Thorp, where he is looking for long and short ideas in liquid corporate credit markets....
Veritas Pension Insurance Company’s Mid-Market Sweet Spot
In our interview with portfolio manager Laura Wickstrom, she explains what lies behind the Finnish group’s long-term success in private equity investing and how they chose which managers to work with....
Timing Allocations to Emerging Market Credit
While Emerging Markets is an asset class that can have bouts of volatility, it is difficult for investors to ignore given its diversification benefits, attractive valuations and the fact that about 70% of global economic growth emanates from it...
Credit and ESG Investing
The application of ESG to credit investing is rapidly evolving, and is, thus far, most well-developed in relation to investment grade corporate credit....
ETF Price War #2.0
Focus shifting to trading and transactions costs...
Are Illiquid strategies Immune from the Price War?
It very clear that fees have, for many years, been falling on traditional, long only investments, and also on relatively liquid alternative investments. Yet the headline fees for illiquid investments, such as private equity and infrastructure, appear to be much stickier – just as the assets are....
Balance sheet management: how much illiquidity can investors handle?
In the past few years, many institutional investors have increased their exposure to illiquid assets. This raises the question of how much illiquidity an investor can handle without letting its risk profile change substantially after a financial shock.....
Asian credit: could 2019 match 2009 and 1999 vintages?
"Asian credit now offers one of the three most compelling environments I have seen over my thirty-year career..." says Clearwater Capitals co-founder Rob Petty
2018 Year in Review
A brief summary of what Nordic institutions have pondered over in the year gone by....