Name Stig Myrseth | Education University of Tromso | |
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Stig Roar Myrseth (born 22 November 1972) is a Norwegian financial expert who operates throughout the Nordic and Baltic region. In 2011 he started the fund management company Dovre Forvaltning who is managing the world's first legal insider trading based fund, Dovre Inside Nordic.
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Early years
Stig R. Myrseth completed secondary school in Harstad, Norway. in 1991 with the best possible grade "6" in all subjects. . In 1991 he won a silver medal in the International Chemistry Olympiad in Lodz. He then started at the University of Tromso, with the department of chemistry. However, soon after he left University in favor of training as a financial analyst.
Financial career
Myrseth won the stock picking contest "Borsspeilet" in the magazine Okonomisk Rapport for eight years in a row from 2003 until the magazine was closed down in 2010. On December 31, 2010 the Norwegian Financial Daily newspaper, Finansavisen, declared Myrseth to be Norway's best stock picker in a front page story.
Myrseth has started several companies in the financial sector. He established the full service investment banking firm Orion Securities in Norway in 1999, worked for Terra Markets, and established Dovre Forvaltning in 2011 in Lithuania.