Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Review of hedge fund launches, closures, trends, regulatory and legal events - week 1
• Opalesque Exclusive: Greenwood`s Golden China fund bounces back, management looking to launch new share class to take advantage of `incredibly low valuation of Chinese equities`
• Opalesque Exclusive: Aurelia Finance another Swiss victim, put 70% of `prudent fund` AUM with Madoff

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• 02. Jan. | Opalesque Exclusive: 2009 Outlook (1) – Saxo Bank expects China GDP growth to drop to zero on export pains, will Asia look to completely decouple from global markets?
• 02. Jan. | Opalesque Exclusive: 2009 Outlook (2) – Russia may have bottomed but may `be among the true winners` in market recovery
• 30. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: 84% of asset managers expect hedge fund industry to contract significantly - Cerulli
• 30. Dec. | Institutions – Opalesque Exclusive: Lexington Retirement System search begins for FoFs investment, Calpers to broaden its broker list
• 29. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Review of hedge fund launches, closures, trends, and regulatory and legal events - week 52
• 29. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Sydney`s RTM multi-asset class fund up 1.16% in November, +5.60% YTD, Australian Fund Monitor`s average November return at -2.81%
• 29. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Dutch manager Attica locks redemptions from two FoHFs
• 29. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Madoff investors shift focus from legal rights to tax implications - accounting firm Marcum & Kliegman forms Madoff Task Force
• 29. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Optimal may have lost CHF3.5bln (US$3.2bln), Rothschild & Cie may have lost Eur9.4m ($13.2m) through Madoff
• 29. Dec. | Asia – Opalesque Exclusive: Japan gets involved with regulations of credit rating agencies, Japan should scrap U.S. debt, Mikuni says, Yen drops as Japan`s inflation slows, output declines
• 26. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: UBP threatens to put in immediate redemptions for any fund that does not have independent administrators and custodians
• 23. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: By year end, U.S. hedge fund managers need to decide whether to retain performance fee structure for non-U.S. funds
• 23. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge fund managers try to ease investor fears amidst one-two punch of Madoff fraud and the rise of redemption gates
• 23. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Salus Alpha offers alternative investible index fund based on its Directional Markets Index to investors
• 22. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Harry Markopolos submission to the SEC (November 7th 2005!): `Madoff Investment Securities LLC is a fraud`, How Geneva firm figured it out, too
• 22. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Review of hedge fund launches, closures, trends, and regulatory and legal events – week 51
• 19. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: How to market your hedge fund in 2009 - ammunition against myths, misconceptions and sarcasm
• 19. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Asset Raising Special – the outlook of fundraising for hedge funds who have proven the ability to generate alpha in market turbulence – Part Two
• 19. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: NIR Group launches commodity fund as `bubble is deflating`
• 18. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: The longest running conversation between a small group of top US traders - how to find the right peer group
• 18. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Asset Raising Special – the outlook of fundraising for hedge funds who have proven the ability to generate alpha in market turbulence – Part One
• 18. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: CQS ABS Fund up 13.25% in November, 70% + YTD
• 18. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: K&L Gates says look at Bayou fraud for instructive guidance, Madoff investors seen returning fictitious profits from redemptions
• 18. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Pictet on how to avoid Madoff-type exposure, Switzerland deeply affected by fraud but alternatives are far from dead
• 18. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Developments in Islamic Finance (2)
• 17. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: As S&P 500 sits on high cash balances, a little stability is all that is needed for pent up M&A demand to see some relief
• 17. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: NY Assemblyman Boyland hopes independent third party pricing and valuation service for state pensions will create jobs for displaced financial industry veterans
• 17. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Aurarian Capital pushes back launch of clean energy fund a second time as launch assets climb to $100m
• 17. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: AlphaQuest Original program up 53% YTD, manager comment: `system of money creation based on blind trust of world`s population and governments in the US dollar - the end of the fiat money system?`
• 17. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Developments in Islamic Finance (1)

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