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Martin Estlander From the Opalesque Team: With impressive year over year growth of over 100%, Finnish CTA Estlander & Partners has announced that assets under management have grown past the $1bn mark as of the end of April 2011. The firm, which is twenty years old, has returned an average annualized return of 14% (net) for its combined strategies. The Helsinki-based firm has recently opened a Zurich office, and also has operations in Vaasa and Munich.

"The one billion mark is an important milestone for us and we are grateful to our investors for their confidence", said Martin Estlander, CEO of Estlander & Partners in a statement released by the firm.

Driving the asset growth, Estlander says, is investor interest in the daily liquid nature of managed futures strategies. "This seems to have attracted new investors, and has helped the managed futures sector to grow at the expense of other hedge fund strategies."

The firm also announced that the new Zurich offices will be headed by Christoffer Dahlberg, who will also be responsible for institutional investors and high net worth clients in Switzerland, Benelux countries and Sweden. Prior to joining Estlander & Partners, Dahlberg was with UBP in Zurich, where he served as Head of Nordic Institutions. "With steady AUM growth, lengthy track record and solid performance, joining Estlander & Partners at this stage to help boost the company’s distrib......................

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