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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Roundtable: Nordic Hedge Fund Leaders say hedge funds a stabilizing force, confident on further growth but warn over "race to ever shorter liquidity..

Stockholm, October 21st 2008 -- Opalesque, the world's largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has just launched the ninth issue of its groundbreaking Roundtable Series, the Opalesque Nordic Roundtable (download here: http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=static&and=RoundtableNORDIC).



Some of the Nordic hedge funds and CTAs have track records that go back to 1991. There are more than 200 hedge funds registered or run out of the Nordic region, adopted early by Nordic institutions and pension funds.



The Opalesque Nordic Roundtable was sponsored by DnB NOR Asset Management and took place on September 22nd 2008 in their Stockholm office. For this Roundtable, Opalesque united the following Nordic Alternatives Leaders:





l Martin Estlander, CEO, Estlander & Rönnlund

l Kent Janer, Partner, Portfolio Manager, Brummer & Partners AB

l Svante Bergstrom, Managing Director, Fund Manager, Brummer & Partners AB

l Peter C. Warren, CIO, WarrenWicklund Asset Management

l Lars Lovgren, Head of Hedge Funds, DnB NOR Asset Management

l Dr. Patrik Säfvenblad, Head of Hedge Fund Research, DnB NOR Asset Management

l Magnus Nilsson, Partner, Öhman Group

l Dennis Johansson, Partner, RAM Rational Asset Management





The purpose of the Opalesque Roundtable Series is to provide a catalogue of intelligence on the world's most important hedge fund centres and introduce you to some relevant local players of each jurisdiction. New York, London, Geneva, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, and Auckland are already covered (see the Roundtable archive on the Opalesque website). In this Roundtable Script, you will learn:





l A bit of history: How have the Nordic markets have achieved this degree of sophistication in financial markets, trading and hedge funds?

l How is the Nordic hedge fund community standing up against their international peers in both in absolute and risk-adjusted returns?

l How do Nordic institutions view hedge funds?

l How does regulation vary from country to country?

l What are the advantages of running a hedge fund from the Nordic region?

l What is "ATM Risk"?

l An in-depth discussion on liquidity: Why are large investors concerned on hedge funds' race to ever shorter liquidity terms?

l Why hedge funds have been a stabilizing force in the current market turmoil

l How will the region further evolve? What funds and strategies are being developed?





The Opalesque Nordic Roundtable can be downloaded here:

http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=static&and=RoundtableNORDIC

All other previously published Opalesque Roundtable Scripts can be accessed here:

http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=archiveRT



About Opalesque:



In 2003, with the publication of its daily Alternative Market Briefing, Opalesque successfully launched an information revolution in the hedge fund media space: "Opalesque changed the world by bringing transparency where there was opacity and by delivering an accurate professional reporting service." - Nigel Blanchard, Culross. This hybrid financial news service, which combines proprietary industry news stories and filtered third party reports, has been credited by many industry insiders with delivering precise, accurate, and vital information to a notoriously guarded audience.



Each week, Opalesque publications are read by more than 500,000 industry professionals in over 100 countries. Opalesque is the only daily hedge fund publisher which is actually read by the elite managers themselves (http://www.opalesque.com/op_testimonials.html).



About Opalesque Publications:



Alternative Market Briefing is a daily newsletter on the global hedge fund industry, highly praised for its completeness and timely delivery of the most important daily news for professionals dealing with hedge funds. Alternative Market Briefing offers both a quick overview and in-depth coverage. Subscribers can also access the industry’s largest news archive (29,000+ articles) on hedge funds and related topics.



A SQUARE is the first web publication, globally, that is dedicated exclusively to alternative investments. A SQUARE's weekly selections feature unique investment opportunities that bear virtually no correlation to the main stream hedge fund strategies and/or distinguish themselves by virtue of their "alternative" motive – for instance, social or behavioral strategies or those focused on natural resources or sustainable/environment-related investing.



With its "research that reveals" approach, fast facts and investment oriented analysis, A SQUARE offers diversification and complementary ideas for private, high net-worth and institutional investors, pension funds and endowments, portfolio and hedge fund managers.



Technical Research Briefing delivers a global perspective/overview on all major markets, including equity indices, fixed Income, currencies, and commodities. Opalesque Technical Research is unique compared to most available research which is fundamental in nature and not technically (chart) oriented.



Sovereign Wealth Funds Briefing offers a quick and complete overview on the actions and issues relating to Sovereign Wealth Funds, who rank now amongst the most important and observed participants in the international capital markets.

Commodities Briefing is a free, daily publication covering the global commodities markets. The Opalesque Commodities Briefings follow the popular Opalesque “Briefing” format and offer a quick and complete oversight on commodities and commodity-related news and research in 26 detailed categories.



The daily Real Estate Briefings offer a quick and complete oversight on real estate, important news related to that sector as well as commentaries and research in 28 detailed categories. The service can be subscribed as daily email newsletter or by RSS feed.



The Opalesque Roundtable Series unites some of the leading hedge fund managers and their investors from specific global hedge fund centers, sharing unique insights on the specific idiosyncrasies and
developments as well as issues and advantages of their jurisdiction.

Through the series, hedge fund investors looking for new talent, a hedge fund interested in diversifying its investor base, or service providers looking for new clients will all get to know some of the leaders in each hedge fund center and will find invaluable information and intelligence without any travel involved.


For more information, please go to http://www.opalesque.com

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