Sentat Event Driven ends 2011 ahead of peers with Nordic-focused approach

January 26, 2012  


Former Alfred Berg equity broker Sten Berggren’s fledgling event-driven fund has completed its first year of trading with a strong return in a generally poor year for European event-driven strategies – and the manager is confident that his views on Nordic companies will continue to bear fruit in 2012


Sten Berggren
The past couple of years have seen event-driven funds receiving high levels of investor interest, and event-driven managers have generally been bullish about the potential opportunities to be exploited by their strategies.

A panel of specialists at the EuroHedge Summit in Paris last May were convinced that this was a good time for event-driven, citing the likelihood of organic company growth and an increase in M&A activity in the near-term.

But if...

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Data

Indices April 2012 European regional fund

Composite
Index Composite
EuroHedgeApr 12YTD%
Composite-0.15%2.67%100%
Convertible & Equity Arbitrage EUR-0.27%4.23%100%
Convertible & Equity Arbitrage USD0.25%5.72%100%
Credit EUR0.22%6.22%100%
Credit USD-0.01%3.58%100%
Currency-0.21%1.99%100%
Emerging Market Debt USD0.00%2.65%100%
Emerging Market Equity USD-0.65%4.42%100%
Equity Market Neutral & Quantitative Strategies EUR0.29%1.17%100%
Equity Market Neutral & Quantitative Strategies USD-0.38%1.13%100%
European Equity EUR0.14%3.62%100%
European Equity GBP0.19%3.77%100%
European Equity Nordic0.34%4.13%100%
European Equity USD0.21%3.75%100%
Event Driven EUR-1.37%4.21%100%
Event Driven USD-0.40%3.52%100%
Fixed Income EUR-0.01%1.90%100%
Fixed Income USD0.15%1.17%100%
Global Equity EUR-0.80%3.86%100%
Global Equity USD-0.57%4.05%100%
Macro EUR-0.42%1.10%100%
Macro USD-0.43%1.26%1,000%
Managed Futures EUR-0.15%-0.27%100%
Managed Futures USD-0.32%-0.12%103%
Mixed Arbitrage & Multi-Strategy USD-0.26%2.63%100%

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