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How over the past 11 years IPM's macro hedge fund strategy has outperformed many other funds

Thursday, August 17, 2017

Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia:

The macro strategy of Stockholm-based alternative investment manager IPM has a solid 11-year track record, outperforming many large funds. Stefan Nydahl, CEO of IPM said IPM has found an interesting niche and developed specific and effective investment skills over that time.

Nydahl said at the latest Opalesque 2017 Nordic Roundtable, "Our focus and strength is our relative focus together with the fundamental focus. We are distinct from many other funds in that way, for example we don't have a momentum component, and so we are an excellent complement to what [managed futures firm] RPM provides, for instance. We have basically no correlation with CTAs, even though we are in the managed futures space as well."

He added that IPM has developed a broad enough set of indicators and a methodology to look at the markets that enables them to take long-term views on many different things: "When we look at how to take positions, we look at it from a valuation angle, a macro angle etc., so we try to capture a wide range of indicators and then predicting what positions would favor us. This is one side of our process, and then the 2nd component that explains well our returns is that we stick to being relative."

IPM also never tries to second-guess a central bank, he added. "I sometimes get questions about this difficult central bank enviro......................

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