Key Takeaways
- • SRV Capital, a Danish fixed-income boutique managing relative-value strategies, promoted analyst Peter Dam Skjærbæk to Portfolio Manager effective September 2026 and hired August Rosenkrantz Sønnichsen as a new analyst, strengthening its investment team following sustained asset growth.
- • SRV Fixed Income fund delivered consecutive years of strong performance: 14.3% (2023), 13.9% (2024), and 14.8% (2025), with 7.6% gains through July 2026, demonstrating resilience even during challenging market periods such as 2022 when the fund gained 0.6% while many fixed-income peers posted losses.
- • The firm, founded in 2019 by former Nordea colleagues Torben Pedersen and Erik Bo Hansen and based in Charlottenlund near Copenhagen, has expanded its workforce with three new hires at the beginning of 2025 as rising assets under management and increased investor demand drive organizational growth.
- • Skjærbæk's promotion reflects strong professional performance and commitment during his first year with the firm, transitioning from analyst to portfolio manager role within a boutique that has established itself as a stronger performer in the Nordic fixed-income hedge fund universe.
Summary
SRV Capital, a Copenhagen-area fixed-income specialist, has promoted Peter Dam Skjærbæk from analyst to Portfolio Manager, effective September 2026, while simultaneously adding August Rosenkrantz Sønnichsen as an analyst. The moves reflect organizational expansion driven by growing assets under management and expanding client demand for the firm's relative-value fixed-income strategy.
Founded in 2019 by former Nordea colleagues Torben Pedersen and Erik Bo Hansen, SRV Capital manages SRV Fixed Income, a hedge fund focused on Nordic and broader European fixed-income opportunities. The fund has posted a consistent track record of outperformance. After a relatively subdued initial period through 2021, SRV Fixed Income demonstrated defensive positioning during 2022's challenging markets with a 0.6% gain when many fixed-income strategies suffered losses. Performance has accelerated significantly since, with annual returns of 14.3% in 2023, 13.9% in 2024, and 14.8% in 2025. The fund has maintained momentum into 2026, recording 7.6% gains through the end of July.
Skjærbæk joined SRV Capital as an analyst at the beginning of 2025 and will assume his new portfolio manager responsibilities beginning September 2026. In a statement, the SRV Capital team noted that Skjærbæk "has been a valued part of SRV Capital as an analyst" and praised his "strong professional skills and a high level of commitment." His promotion from within reflects the firm's strategy of developing talent internally while managing its expanded investment mandate.
The boutique's headcount expansion—including the three hires at the start of 2025 and the new analyst position—underscores the firm's growth trajectory and capacity to attract both institutional capital and professional talent to its Copenhagen-based operations. These appointments position SRV Capital to support its growing AUM and deepening client base while maintaining the operational discipline that has characterized its performance over the past five years.
Founded in 2019 by former Nordea colleagues Torben Pedersen and Erik Bo Hansen, SRV Capital manages SRV Fixed Income, a hedge fund focused on Nordic and broader European fixed-income opportunities. The fund has posted a consistent track record of outperformance. After a relatively subdued initial period through 2021, SRV Fixed Income demonstrated defensive positioning during 2022's challenging markets with a 0.6% gain when many fixed-income strategies suffered losses. Performance has accelerated significantly since, with annual returns of 14.3% in 2023, 13.9% in 2024, and 14.8% in 2025. The fund has maintained momentum into 2026, recording 7.6% gains through the end of July.
Skjærbæk joined SRV Capital as an analyst at the beginning of 2025 and will assume his new portfolio manager responsibilities beginning September 2026. In a statement, the SRV Capital team noted that Skjærbæk "has been a valued part of SRV Capital as an analyst" and praised his "strong professional skills and a high level of commitment." His promotion from within reflects the firm's strategy of developing talent internally while managing its expanded investment mandate.
The boutique's headcount expansion—including the three hires at the start of 2025 and the new analyst position—underscores the firm's growth trajectory and capacity to attract both institutional capital and professional talent to its Copenhagen-based operations. These appointments position SRV Capital to support its growing AUM and deepening client base while maintaining the operational discipline that has characterized its performance over the past five years.
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