​Varma Eyes Outsourcing Risk Premia For Efficiency

Six years ago, Varma established an internal derivative trading team to explore different kinds of investment strategies. The team began in discretionary macro trading strategies before moving on to constructing its own systematic strategies. Now, the pension is looking at outsourcing allocations for greater efficiencies. Georgia Reynolds spoke with Varma’s Kari Vatanen on the Finnish fund’s plan to expand its risk premia strategies.