Pareto Group is to merge two shipping funds under its control, Pareto World Wide Shipping and Pareto World Wide Shipping II.

Investment house in fund move
Both shipping funds have stakes in Havila Shipping among other investments.

After the merger, which will be effective from February next year, the combined fund will control owns 5.44 % of the shipowner’s shares.

Pareto fund manager Patrick Kartevoll said that the two funds now shared similar ground.

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