Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Asset backed reinsurance gains traction with hedge fund managers, investors [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: When it comes to hedge fund managers taking a look at new structures, hedged mutual funds seem to be getting the most column inches (and

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: Event driven strategy outlook: Broader focus required [more]

  This article was authored by Alex Gavrish, founder and CEO of Etalon Investment Research, and author of "Wall Street Back To Basics."

More Exclusives

• 23. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Rainwater and Blue Sky - an Australian water fund emerges [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Financial reporters often tout new funds and investments as uncorrelated investments, but few can say they are uncorrelated to everything but weather. Enter Blue Sky Alternative's water fund which invests in the permanent rights to Australia's water. Sev

• 23. Apr. | Opalesque TV: Textron CIO forecasts great merger between private equity and hedge fund managers (2) [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Charles Van Vleet, Textron’s private pension fund CIO, gives his perspectives on why benchmarking against the HFRI is a mistake in a rising S&P environment in a recent

• 22. Apr. | Opalesque TV: Textron pension plan wants to invest in private debt structures (1) [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: As a private pension fund CIO at Textron, Charles Van Vleet gives insight into his strategic asset allocation over the next 12 months and his best tactical allocation ideas. He explains why he is increasing his allocation in private debt structure funds, and

• 21. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: EU moves on MiFID II, banking union [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The European Union has approved moving into the second phase of its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) regulation which handles market structure issues, these new rules will have implications for high frequency trending and derivatives. In additi

• 21. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge funds attract $55bn new money in Q1: hedge fund news, week 17 [more]

  In the week ending 18 April, 2014, eVestment reported hedge funds raised assets in Q1 attracting $55bn of net new money. Assets held by European hedge funds hit record high levels in the first three months of this year to record $476.2bn by the end of March; multi-strategy hedge fund firm Cen

• 17. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Classic Auto Funds Limited (CAF) launches several car investing funds [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: A new trend in alternative alternatives is emerging - car appreciation funds. Classic Auto Funds Limited (CAF) is the first to market with several funds that make super elite luxury cars into real asset investments. As a result of growing overseas demand couple

• 17. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Trends in alternative investments - First Trust Advisors [more]

  Mark Melin, Opalesque Futures Intelligence, Chicago: In this interview, Opalesque Futures Intelligence Editor Mark Melin discusses current trends in alternative investing with Rob Guttschow and John Gambla of First Trust Advisors Mark Melin: Can you just describe the benefits of

• 17. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Asian volatility fund prefers to wait for the larger moves [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Here is a fund that manages to keep year on year positive returns thanks to its extensive use of Asian convertibles to trade volatility, as well as index option

• 16. Apr. | 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

• 16. Apr. | 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

More Other Voices

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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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Near Term Trend: Positive to Neutral
Friday's Close: 1.38129 (- 3)
UPDATE: Five weeks ago, the Euro broke out, above 1.38500, and a move to 1.39660 ensued. The problem was, the Euro reversed and fell back below the 1.38500 pivot, shortly thereafter. Over two weeks ago, we stated, "Key support is generally within the 1.3600 region. I expect that region to hold for now". Subsequently, that region held, and the market rallied. Last week, we asked the question, "Can it sustain"? Thus far, the answer is a glass half full; it retraced slightly last week but mainly sideways.