Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Optimal Fund Management Australia takes the long view on Long/Short Equity [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Optimal Fund Management Australia runs an Australia/New Zealand long-short equity fund with a large-cap focus. The fund was founded by George Colman and Peter Whiting as part of the Optimal Group. Both men were

• Opalesque Exclusive: Park Hill to represent new credit hedge fund manager MeehanCombs [more]

  From Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Global placement agent Park Hill Group, which has $126.4bn of commitments for its private equity and hedge fund clients, has selected MeehanCombs LP as the credit opportunities hedge fund manager

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: How ironic – economic growth may be the poison pill to the 2012 bull market [more]

  The author, Steven Michael, is the Founder, Principal&Chief Investment Officer of Stonehenge Asset Management. He has over 25 years experience in the alternative management space. His extensive financial career began in 1985 on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). He is also a

More Exclusives

• 16. May. | AIMA Canada publishes new AIMA Canada handbook [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: AIMA Canada, the Canada National Group of the Alternative Investment Management Association, the global hedge fund industry association, today released the AIMA Canada Handb

• 16. May. | Chicago Board of Options Exchange and China Financial Futures Exchange sign a memorandum of understanding [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) announced today that they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which establ

• 16. May. | Agecroft Partners hires hedge fund veteran [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Agecroft Partners, a global hedge fund consulting and third party marketing firm, has hired hedge fund veteran Cara Fleckenstein as a Managing Director. Cara bring

• 16. May. | Harcourt Investment Consulting appoints new head of alternative investments [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Harcourt, a subsidiary of Vontobel Asset Management, has appointed Jan Viebig and Georg Wessling to further expand and strengthen its expertise in alternative investments.

• 16. May. | Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index down 0.24% (est.) in April (+3.60% YTD), funds attracted US$10.4bn [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - This month's Eurekahedge Report reports on a somewhat flat month for the industry. Negative returns in April affected most regional hedge funds a

• 16. May. | Swiss fund of hedge funds manager Gottex to acquire Hong Kong-based alternative asset manager Penjing [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited (Gottex), a leading independent global alternative asset management group w

• 15. May. | RBC Hedge 250 Index® returned -0.04% in April, +3.37% YTD [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: RBC Capital Markets today reported that for the month of April 2012 the RBC Hedge 250 Index® had a net return of -0.04 per cent. This brings the year-to-date return of the I

• 15. May. | Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished down 0.04% in April (+4% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index (the “Broad Index”) finished down 0.04% for the month of April. Performance for the Broad Index and its 10 sub-strategies i

• 15. May. | Viteos expands European operations [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Viteos Fund Services, in the latest in a series of strategic moves, has announced the expansion of its European operations. The expansion comes in response to increased cli

• 15. May. | Survey finds rising investor demand for growth stimulus [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - A growing majority of global investors would like to see more stimulative fiscal policies from governments around the world, amid resurgent fears about the Greek economy, a

• 15. May. | GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index up 0.51% (est.) in April (+3.66% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - The gross return of the GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for April, 2012 measured 0.51%. Current month, flash estimate 0.51%

• 15. May. | Opalesque Exclusive: Opalesque Gulf Roundtable reveals increasing sophistication of sovereign wealth funds [more]

  By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: Participants at The Opalesque Gulf Roundtable, sponsored by Van Eck Global and

• 15. May. | Opalesque Exclusive: GlobeOp launches hedge fund performance index, up 0.51% in April and 3.66% YTD [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: UK-based fund services firm, GlobeOp has launched an independent, asset-weighted hedge fund performance index on May 15, which shows a gross performance of 0.51% in April. The

• 15. May. | Opalesque Exclusive: Chicago hedge fund AM Capital blames 'dysfunctional’ governments in Europe and U.S. for losses in April [more]

  From Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia: The hedge fund industry’s losses in April demonstrate "how dysfunctional governments in Europe and the U.S. can only give negative impact for the markets," according to Aaron Miller, President of Chicago, Illinois-based hedge fund

More Other Voices

• 23. Mar. 2012 | Other Voices: Not your father's hedge fund industry [more]

  Authored by Matt Nelson, Executive Director, Strategy at Omgeo LLC, a financial operations expert, this article looks at the consequences of pending regulations on the hedge fund industry. Much of discussion on the regulatory changes fa

• 05. Mar. 2012 | Other Voices: Know the difference between conviction and clarity in marketing [more]

  This article was authored by Diane Harrison, principal and owner of Panegyric Marketing, a marketing communications firm founded in 2002 that specializes in a wide range of strategy and writing services within the alternative assets sector

• 29. Feb. 2012 | Other Voices – Inefficiencies in the Emerging Markets High Yield Debt Asset Class [more]

  From André Simon, Galloway Capital (www.gallowaycapital.com): There is a common belief that Emerging Markets High Yield (EM HY) should pay a higher yield than their US HY peers (difference is currently around 200bps) because of EM’s lack of Rule of Law, which in turn affects EM’s recovery rate

• 02. Feb. 2012 | Other Voices: Who's watching your assets? Lessons from MF Global [more]

  The author is Deborah Prutzman,CEO, The Regulatory Fundamentals Group, a firm that provides an enterprise-wide view of the US laws that impact alternative asset managers and others involved in the field: In the wake of MF Global, it can be tempting to suggest myriad rules, which, if followed, wo

• 27. Jan. 2012 | Other Voices: A Very Crowded Trade [more]

  This article was authored by Richard Harris, fund manager at Port Shelter Investment Management, based in Hong Kong. He compares the investment management industry to what it was like 26 years ago. I remember a former Managing Director asking me to write a message to Head Office on a blank

• 16. Dec. 2011 | Other Voices: The truth about hedge fund risk [more]

  This article was authored by Charles T. Hage. Mr. Hage is currently Compliance Officer at U.S.-based firm Mohican Financial Management, LLC. During his career he has reviewed financial performance measures in alternative investments and managed financial risk in corporate investment programs.

• 01. Nov. 2011 | Other Voices: Agecroft Partners believes Hedge fund branding drives a majority of asset flows [more]

  By: Don Steinbrugge, Chairman of Agecroft Partners, a global consulting and third party marketing firm for hedge funds: Since the market correction of 2008, a vast majority of hedge fund net asset flows have gone to a small minority of hedge funds with the strongest brands, marking a change

• 26. Oct. 2011 | Other Voices: Africa needs flexible capital as well as patient capital [more]

  By Kayode Akindele, Funsho Allu and Fred Binka: partners of 46 Parallels LLP, an investment management business based in London and Lagos. The current focus on supplying finance to the microfinance/SME sector is admirable, but orphans a swathe of important companies across Sub Saharan Africa (SS

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Near Term Trend: Negative

Friday’s Close: 1353.39 (- 4.60)

UPDATE: Five weeks ago we went short and placed a daily stop close only at 1402.40.

Unfortunately we were stopped out, as the Index settled at 1403.36, two weeks ago. As we said at the time, “We may have been whipsawed”, Thus far that is true.

We were early to sell the S&P, and NASDAQ, as most market participants five to six weeks ago were still very much bullish. We remain short the NASDAQ, and stated in our last report on Thursday, “At this juncture, if you are buying- only take partial positions as overhead is well defined”.

Resistance up to 1385.00 is formidable.