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The art of picking fund managers in the Nordic institutional market looks very different today than it did in the mid-2010s. That’s clear after an extensive review of the content of Nordic Fund Selection Award supplements going back ten years.
Tell Media Group introduced the Nordic Fund Selection Awards in 2010 in an effort to highlight the importance of the fund selection profession and to create a platform for benchmarking and for channelling feedback from fund companies to Nordic selectors. Coinciding with the event, a supplement is published outlining both the rankings of the teams as well as insights gathered from the top three teams in each country. As we prepare for this year’s event (hosted in Stockholm on November 19) we did a deep dive into the supplements from the last ten years to find out how the fund
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