Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Swiss CTA Amplitude’s AuM grow as investors add to short-term trading funds [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: While many CTA managers have suffered in terms of performance and AUM, over the last 15 months Swiss-based Amplitude Capital’s assets under management grew by about 33% to around $1.6bn on the back of a few large tickets from North-American and European pensi

• Opalesque Exclusive: Is it a good time for global equities? [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Investing in global equities is presently a roller coaster. Latest statistics from China, geopolitical events in Ukraine and uncertainty about US valuations and the dollar, all add to a generally perceived high level of risk. Hence some long-only managers are

• Hedge fund industry raises nearly $2m to prevent and treat child abuse [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge Funds Care/Help For Children (HFC), one of the most globally recognized charities backed by the hedge fund industry whose proceeds support non-profits focused on preventing and treating child abuse, raised nearl

• Credit Suisse 6th Annual Hedge Fund Investor Survey finds optimism on the topics of asset growth and performance [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Credit Suisse releases its sixth annual Hedge Fund Investor Survey, entitled “Onwards and Upwards”, in which over 500 respondents participated, representing $1.16 trillion of hedge fund investments, were analysed on a number of topics including: • Growth and

• Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index up 1.83%, recovers from early-2014 losses (1.49% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds were up 1.83% in February 2014, according to Eurekahedge, recovering from their losses in the start of the year as the MSCI World Index posted gains of 3.87% during the month. Key takeaways for the month of February 2014: · H

Today's Other Voices

• 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

More Exclusives

• 10. Mar. | Opalesque Roundtable: Hedge fund managers see increase in special situations funds, real estate-based private equity funds [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Ashley Gunning, a partner at investment funds group Walkers Global said that one of the trends he expects to continue this year is the increase in special situations funds where specialist man

• 10. Mar. | Commodity, equity hedge funds post strong returns in February [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Commodity and equity hedge funds lead strong performances in February as the commodity, equity and fixed income markets recovered from January’s volatility despite continued turbulence in emerging markets, said data provider

• 10. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: SEC allows some M&A brokers to operate without SEC registration (Part 1) [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: There may be a glimmer of hope for investment firms when it comes to new financial regulations. In February, the SEC released a significant no-action letter f

• 10. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Big institutional investors account for 80% of emerging market bonds: hedge fund news, week 11 [more]

  In the week ending 07 March, 2014, the IMF said big institutional investors account for 80% of the $500bn that plowed into emerging market sovereign debt in the last few years; hedge funds

• 07. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: As hedge funds compete for marketing and communications talent deals shift [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Hedge funds have had to do a lot of maneuvering in recent years to keep up with new regulations, ever changing financial markets and investor demands. Now as the industry matures and good talent, and indeed good investments are harder to find funds are taking s

• 07. Mar. | Old Park’s Maestro strategy returns +2.08% (+3.16% YTD) [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: London-based Old Park Capital’s Maestro Managed Futures Strategy returned +1.08% in January and +2.08% in February (+3.16% YTD) as political uncertainties in emerging markets continue to create

• 06. Mar. | Emerging market long/short managers with low net exposure help investors to curb losses (Part 2) [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Emerging markets had a very turbulent start in 2014 as a result of the massive depreciation of the Argentinian Peso (-22%) and Turkish Lira (-9%), said Asian hedge fund specialists GFIA. Entering 2014, Russian and B

• 06. Mar. | Opalesque TV: Securitisations expert finds hidden value in European RMBS market [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: According to Judith Sabbah-Sciamma, a securitisations expert, the RMBS market in Europe offers some real opportunities. Judith Sabbah-Sciamma is CEO, CIO and Portfolio Manager of London-based WyeTree Asset

• 06. Mar. | Federal regulatory agencies issue final Dodd-Frank Act stress test guidance [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Three federal bank regulatory agencies issued final guidance describing supervisory expectations for stress tests conducted by financial companies with total consolidated assets between $10b and $50bn. In a

• 05. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Lessons from Baupost and Buffet - what the 2014 letters have to say [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The latest round of investor letters from some of the biggest names in investing are out. The most highly anticipated of these letters is Buffet's which had a lot to say about th

• 04. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management acquires Fintan Partners LLC [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management (CFAM), a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P is acquiring California-based Fintan Partners, LLC, a fixed income absolute return fund of hedge funds. Fintan is led by founder Alexander Klikoff and will become part of CFAM.

• 04. Mar. | Asian fund managers end January with low net exposures (Part 1) [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Asian hedge fund specialists GFIA said Asian fund managers ended January with low net exposures, with selective net short exposures in countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. GFIA founder Peter Dougla

• 04. Mar. | Emerging market-focused hedge funds suffer sharp losses [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Emerging market-focused hedge funds suffered sharp losses at the start of 2014 as the HFRI Emerging Markets (Total) Index declined by 2.5% in January on weakness in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Comparatively, the index gained 7.1% in the final four month

• 04. Mar. | Majority of asset managers rely on secondary market intelligence [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: A new study by global analytics firm Cerulli Associates found that 93% of asset managers rely heavily on secondary market intelligence or so-called packaged research solutions. "Secondary research is already compiled and synthesized, usually in a report doc

More Other Voices

• 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

• 05. Nov. 2013 | Other Voices: Survey illustrates Big Data management challenges, firms appoint 'Chief Data Officers’ [more]

  This article was authored by Alessandro Ferrari, who heads up global marketing outreach for RIMES, which serves the growing

• 29. Oct. 2013 | Other Voices: Roadmap to absolute returns, part 2 [more]

  By: Rene Levesque, Founder, Mountjoy Capital When asked about the behavioral and personality characteristics of the successful traders, Mr. Schwager, author of several books on Market Wizards, answers with the following: "People who are suc

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NYMEX - CRUDE OIL (April) - WEEKLY

Intermediate Trend: Positive
Friday's Close: $102.69 (+ $ 1.13)
UPDATE: NOTE: We have depicted a Long term chart dating back to 2010, whereas each bar represents one week of time. In our last report, we stated, "At this juncture, the price consolidation spans 8 days within the Bull Flag (see chart). Odds favor a break higher, but a daily close below $101.20 would negate the near term bulls". Based on the last five trading days, the lowest daily settlement was $101.45, therefore the bull scenario lives on. Looking at the long term picture, it appears the market is challenging long term resistance which could allow for a move toward $110.00. Next week or two are critical. $101.20 remains our downside pivot.