Skandia Liv awards US$100m (e77.5m) hedge fund brief
SWEDEN - Swedish life insurance company Skandia Liv has awarded fund of hedge fund specialist Liberty Ermitage a US$100m (e77.5m) Japanese long/short equity brief as part of its new portable-alpha strategy.
Liberty Ermitage – one of the largest offshore fund management operations in Europe – said the appointment was the latest of “many wins” in the Nordic region this year for the US$3.5bn (e2.7bn) asset management...
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