The Investors Choice European Hedge Fund Awards 2012 yesterday awarded prizes to funds in Europe which have delivered excellent results. Catella Nordic Long Short Equity won the first prize in the category “Long Short Equity Fund of the Year” and was also designated as “Best newcomer”.
During 2011, a year of sharply falling stock market prices, the managers of the Catella Nordic Long Short Equity fund created a positive return of not less than 8.74 per cent.

‟Our strategy is to focus not merely on upswings in the equities market, but also to place great focus on earning money when asset prices are falling. One of the biggest challenges last year was to restructure the portfolio in the autumn in order to adapt it to the strong bull market at the time,” say Sven Thorén and Jonas Wikström, fund managers responsible for Catella Nordic Long Short Equity.

Catella Nordic Long Short Equity endeavours to deliver a consistently positive return in which the relationship between return and...