Today's Exclusives
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Opalesque Exclusive: PIMCO alums launch unconstrained credit fund [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The original architects of PIMCO's Unconstrained Bond Fund have teamed up for a new unconstrained fund utilizing their existing experience and best new ideas. The Anfield Universal Fixed Income Fund (AFLIX), takes a "go anywhere" approach to managing fixed i
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Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge fund replicators evolve [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Hedge fund replicators as a group of products tend to get a bad rap from hedge fund managers who suggest that the best a replicator can offer is dynamic beta capture. A
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Barclay Hedge Fund Index dips 0.09% in March +1.39% YTD [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds lost 0.09% in March, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index is up 1.39% year to date.
“Global equity markets experienced their version of March Madness as fears of Russian expansionism, Fed tightening, and slowing gro
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EU Parliament’s vote of UCITS V Directive creates alignment with AIFMD [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - The European Parliament voted to adopt the UCITS V Directive (“UCITS V”) on 15 April 2014, in advance of Parliamentary elections next month. The final vote followed a period of uncertainty where there was potential for the progress of UCITS V to be thrown off course becau
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In ruling of wide significance, Privy Council decides on Fairfield case [more]
Opalesque Industry Update - On 16 April 2014, the Privy Council ruled in the claims brought by the liquidators of Fairfield, one of the largest feeder funds to have invested into Bernard Madoff’s investment company. The company filed hundreds of claw back claims against investors who had redeemed sh
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15. Apr. |
Opalesque TV: Regulatory extraterritoriality is not all that bad [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Two compliance experts discuss financial regulatory extraterritoriality, the current confusion among European fund marketers, new managers’ stance toward the AIFMD, and the beauty of technology within compliance practices.
Extraterritoriality, the ap
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14. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Oldest and biggest hedge funds have the most assets: hedge fund news, week 16 [more]
In the week ending 11 April, 2014, the oldest and biggest hedge funds have the most assets according to the latest data from eVestment; Capstone Investment
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11. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: The Flash Boys flash mob [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Michael Lewis' new book Flash Boys released last week to great fanfare, and some very real investigations into market activity. In the book, Lewis blends two of his familiar plot lines wall street and plucky idealism. Lewis, former creature of the t
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11. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Opportunity to extract alpha from structured credit 'now much more difficult' [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Structured credit went out of fashion in 2008, then back again four years later. The asset class still offers attractive rewards for the bold, yet sagacious inv
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10. Apr. |
Opalesque Radio: Geopolitical risk can create buying and selling opportunities in equity market [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: William Davies is Head of Global Equity at Threadneedle Investments. Drawing on his 27 years of experience, he shares his outlook on global equity market in a recent
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10. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Pensions, endowments, family offices reconsider life settlement investments [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Hedge funds were once the largest investors in the life settlement industry, now the industry is seeing more interest from pensions, endowments and family offices directly. Life settlements have always been considered a niche part of the investing landscape, an
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09. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: New global macro fund follows manager’s own growth and inflation indicators, not market prices [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: The Aimed Global Alpha Fund is a systematic fundamental global macro fund, which trading decisions are generated from proprietary models that analyses big data
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08. Apr. |
Opalesque TV: First Trust Advisors launches liquid alternatives platform [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: First Trust Advisors is launching a new liquid alternatives platform aimed at building on the companies existing alternative ETFs offering by adding hedged mutual funds. Senior Portfolio Managers Rob Guttschow and John Gambla recently sat down in an
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08. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: European stock-picking fund up 19% YTD, bets on small caps’ high cash level [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Here is a European long/short equity fund that has been beating the odds since its 2008 inception by employing its own investment model, frequent company visits
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07. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Pension funds now largest and fastest growing hedge fund investors: hedge fund news, week 15 [more]
In the week ending 04 April, 2014, EDHEC-Risk Institute cautioned institutional investors on portfolio diversification; pension funds are now the largest and fastest growing investor in the hedge fund industry; Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund at Pimco, forecasted a lo
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04. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: 361 Capital launches managed futures liquid alternative fund [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: 361 Capital has launched a new Fund, the 361 Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund (AGFZX & AGFQX). The fund was started on Feburary 12, 2014, and has posted a 5.6% return since inception. This is the second managed futures fund for 361, the flagship Managed Futu
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02. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Impact investing market matures catching the eye of investors, hedge funds [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Impact investing is often lumped into corporate social responsibility, philanthropic investing, and other sorts of "feel good" investment schemes where investors have a cause and don't look much at the return. However, through the growth of technology and n
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02. Apr. |
Opalesque Radio: BNY Mellon’s list of investment themes includes shale, emerging market politics and healthcare [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: BNY Mellon, an investment management and investment services company, believes that shale gas, emerging markets’ political agendas, healthcare in the U.S. and emerging markets, out-of-fashion property areas
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01. Apr. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Context Asset Management launches with new mutual fund product [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Another new entrant to the liquid alternatives space - Context Asset Management has launched a new mutual fund Context Alternative Strategies Fund (CALTX), a multi-manager, multi-strategy fund. Context principals Steve Kneeley and John Culbertson have prior ex
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13. Mar. 2014 |
Other Voices: Two unanswered questions about alternative betas [more]
By: Andrew Beer, Beachhead Capital Management
Alternative betas, or risk premia, are established investment strategies that are simple enough to automate with a computer but too complicated for most investors to implement directly. For instance, you can program a computer to buy "value" stocks a
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11. Mar. 2014 |
Other Voices: Fortress Europe? New UCITS V rules could be cumbersome for US fund managers [more]
By: Kaye Scholer Attorneys
The European Parliament and Council recently agreed on the substance of the new
UCITS V Directive, which will include safeguards to protect client assets in the event of a
depositary’s insolvency and also address remuneration practices that are thought to
encourage e
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03. Mar. 2014 |
Other Voices: Not so easy to replicate activist hedge funds and achieve similar performance [more]
This article was authored by Alex Gavrish, founder and CEO of Etalon Investment Research, and author of "Wall Street Back To Basics."
With the amount of activist investments on the rise during the last few years, more and more media at
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24. Feb. 2014 |
Other Voices: The real impact of the JOBS Act [more]
This article was authored by Phil Niles Head of CET - Americas at Mitsubishi UFJ Fund Services.
Back in June 2012, I published a piece outlining
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21. Feb. 2014 |
Other Voices: CTA/CPO capital requirements; more harm than good? [more]
By: James Bibbings, President, Turnkey Trading Partners
In late January 2014 the National Futures Association ("NFA") announced to its membership they were:
"…reviewing the current regulatory structure applicable to Commodity Pool Operator ("CPO") and Commodity Trading Advisor ("CTA") operat
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20. Jan. 2014 |
Other Voices: A practitioner’s scorecard to hedge fund replication [more]
This article was authored by Andrew Beer, founder of Beachhead Capital Management LLC in New York. Below is the first part; you can download the full version of the article here.
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31. Dec. 2013 |
Other Voices: Cayman regulator agrees to database providing director transparency [more]
By: Kevin Ryan, HedgeDirector Ltd
The Cayman Islands financial regulator CIMA has revealed proposals to create a public database showing details of offshore directors’ workloads. This move follows a long campaign by investor pressure groups who have been lobbying CIMA to help them in their due d
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07. Nov. 2013 |
Other Voices: Why fee reduction is the purest form of alpha [more]
This article as authored by Andrew Beer, CEO of U.S.-based Beachhead Capital Management. You can access the full version by clicking on the link at the bottom.
In this note, we examine the relationship between the hedge fund
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- Opalesque Exclusive: European stock-picking fund up 19% YTD, bets on small caps’ high cash level[more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Here is a European long/short equity fund that has been beating the odds since its 2008 inception by employing its own investment model, frequent company visits - CTAs could face new challenges in a rising rates environment[more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: CTAs have taken a beating performance wise lately, and asset flows reports show that investors aren't sticking around to see how the movie ends. Now, a new white paper from Roy Niederhoffer and Coen Weddepohl notes that as interest rates start to tick back u - Investing – Big hedge funds bought Puerto Rico's junk bonds, Fidelity explores new trading venue amid flash trade concerns, Crisis-era Greek bonds reward early buyers with big effective returns, Cargill unit discloses stake in Freddie preferred[more]
Big hedge funds bought Puerto Rico's junk bonds
From Reuters.com: Several large hedge funds doubled down on Puerto Rico in last month's giant bond sale despite the U.S. territory's financial struggles, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing confidential documents reviewed by the newspa - Opalesque TV: First Trust Advisors launches liquid alternatives platform[more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: First Trust Advisors is launching a new liquid alternatives platform aimed at building on the companies existing alternative ETFs offering by adding hedged mutual funds. Senior Portfolio Managers Rob Guttschow and John Gambla recently sat down in an - Commodities – Popular value fund manager David Iben bets on Russia, gold,[more]
From Reuters.com: With large bets on Russia and North American gold miners, one of the best performing stock pickers in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is back with a new fund that reflects his deep aversion to following the crowd.
In the Kopernik Global All-Cap Fund, David Iben is follo
 CME - S&P 500 INDEX (CASH) Daily
Near Term Trend: Negative
Friday's Close: 1815.69 (- 17.39)
UPDATE: Prior to the beginning of last week, and based on the single day of price action on Friday, April 4, we wrote, "Major warning signal on Friday, as the Index posted a Downside Key Reversal (Index traded to an intraday historical high, on Friday, and then proceeded to post a settlement below the prior three days of trading). Friday's pattern represents the first text book technical sell signal the S&P has exhibited over a year. The sell- off in January was not telegraphed by a traditional pattern (sell signal). Based on Friday's reversal, a continued move lower, during the coming week appears imminent". The SPX subsequently fell another 51 points last week, as our warning was validated. At this juncture, the up- trend (red) line currently at 1796.00 could play a factor in slowing or holding the downside momentum.
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