Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Structural Alpha Holdings launches to offer hedge funds permanent capital solutions [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Taussig Capital is launching a new vehicle - Structural Alpha Holdings. Structural Alpha Holdings builds on Taussig Capital's expertise advising hedge funds on how to create banking, insurance, and reinsurance companies to generate permanent capital. St

• The unlisted natural resources market remains very crowded as managers bring new funds to market [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The unlisted natural resources market remains very crowded, with managers bringing new funds to market more quickly than they are being closed. At the start of Q3 2019 there are 307 funds seeking a total of $208bn from investors - figures very similar to the firs

• Palladium Equity Partners raises $1.56bn for fifth buy-out fund [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The New York-based Hispanic-Focused Palladium Equity Raises has raised just over $1.5bn for its newest and largest fund. The middle market private equity firm with over $3bn in assets under management raised about $1.56bn at the close of its Palladium Equity Partne

• Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds report strongest first half of a calendar year: hedge fund news, week 26 [more]

  In the week ending July 12th 2019, HFR reported that hedge funds rose 5.7% from January through June, according to Hedge Fund Research Inc.'s asset-weighted index of managers. Funds posted broad gains "to conclude the strongest first half of a calendar year, with varied and wide range of leadership

• Hedge fund industry posting best H1 returns since 2009 [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds' monthly results returned to the black in June. For the month, the hedge fund industry posted a 1.94% return, a turnaround from May's 1.66% decline, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. By compar

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: ILPA Principles 3.0 reflect changes in the alternatives industry [more]

  By: David Warburg, Seyfarth Shaw Overview ILPA Updates Its Best Practices Guidance in "Principles 3.0." Responding to private equity and other alternative asset investment trends and new issues, the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) recently released "ILPA Principles 3.

More Exclusives

• 10. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: Emerging manager Parplus Partners argues investors should only pay fees when funds outperform [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: Should investors only pay fund managers when they outperform? One emerging hedge fund manager says yes. Parplus Partners, a New York-based hedge fund manager, argu

• 08. Jul. | Opalesque Video: The CTA trader that checks trades manually and wants to stay small [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Raffi Sosikian, principal of Pinnacle Quant, a CTA based in Los Angeles, CA, recounts his journey from his teenage years

• 08. Jul. | Opalesque Roundup: All hedge fund strategies show sweet gains in June: hedge fund news, week 25 [more]

  In the week ending July 5th, 2019, Lyxor said that all hedge funds strategies delivered positive returns in June 2019 - L/S Equity Directional, L/S Credit and Market Neutral L/S out

• 01. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: Sancus Capital's Chernova pioneers a new way forward for CLO refinancing [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Investor interest in CLOs is on the rise and Olga Chernova, Founder and CIO at Sancus Capital Management is working to make the market more transparent. Alongside her work at Sancus, Chernova developed a process that is designed to make CLO refinancing easier an

• 01. Jul. | Opalesque Exclusive: For one cannabis fund, the volatility in pot stocks is a feature not a bug [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: The cannabis market can be tough to invest in. Many of the opportunities are privately held and the public stocks are prone to volatility. A new firm - Measure 8 - is

• 01. Jul. | Opalesque Roundup: Hedge fund performance dispersion narrows significantly in 1Q19: hedge fund news, week 24 [more]

  In the week ending June 28th 2019, Hedge Fund Research showed that hedge fund performance dispersion narrows significantly in 1Q19 with the top decile posting an average gain of +21.12%, up from

• 27. Jun. | Opalesque Exclusive: June 28 deadline looms for investors considering opportunity zones [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Investors have a mere 48 hours to defer tax year 2018 gains into opportunity zone investments. Individuals that want to defer taxes from a K-1 flow through entity or 1231 gains by investing in an opportunity zone will need to fund a qualified investment account

• 24. Jun. | Opalesque Exclusive: Gender diverse private equity investment committees significantly outperform all-male teams, study shows [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: New research on private equity shows that having gender diverse investment committees is not only a blindingly obvious thing we need to do in 2019, it's also good for business. The report, entitled, "Impact of Gender Diversity on Performance of Private Equit

• 24. Jun. | Opalesque Roundup: Investors redeem $46.4bn from hedge funds in Q1 2019: hedge fund news, week 23 [more]

  In the week ending June 21st 2019, the June 2019 Eurekahedge report said that the global hedge fund industry AUM has grown by $0.5bn as of May 2019 year-to-date. Final Q1 2019 net outflows fi

• 19. Jun. | Cheyne European Strategic Value Credit Fund closes on €1bn [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: London-based Cheyne Capital Management has closed its inaugural European Strategic Value Credit Fund at the €1bn hard cap. The fund was significantly oversubscribed. The vehicle will invest in loans from middle market European banks that they are selling dow

• 17. Jun. | Opalesque Exclusive: ESG is not good enough for investors who want to make a real impact [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Dr. Walter Schindler is one of the first to be involved in sustainable investing. Indeed, straight after he left law school in the early 80s, he was the legal advisor to the first renewable power project devel

• 17. Jun. | Opalesque Exclusive: All about impact at AIM Summit [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva: There were many speakers on sustainable and impact investing at the Geneva AIM Summit last week, all agreeing that the trend in such investments, while it began many years ago in obscurity and misinterpretation, i

• 17. Jun. | Opalesque Roundup: Nearly all hedge fund categories outperformed the S&P 500 in May: hedge fund news, week 22 [more]

  In the week ending June 14th 2019, a report said that hedge fund returns fell last month after four straight months of positive results to start the year, but managed to outperform the broader U.S. stock market - posting much slimmer losses. Nearly all hedge fund categories outperformed the S&P

• 14. Jun. | Opalesque Roundtable: As venture capital overheats, investors stress caution [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: As venture capital valuations continue to rise, delegates at the recent Opalesque North America PE/VC Roundtable argue that we've reached a point in the cycle where it is prudent to be very selective about investment opportunities. The combination of rising

More Other Voices

• 26. Jun. 2019 | Other Voices: SEC fines hedge fund $5 million over undervaluation of assets [more]

  By: Brian Hooven, Joshua Newville, Proskauer A recent action where the SEC focused on the presumably conservative undervaluation of assets suggests that it is more than willing to use valuation as a hook to deter "smoothing" of returns. As we previously noted, while the SEC consistently announces

• 11. Jun. 2019 | Other voices: Impact of the evolving relationship between investors and managers on fund structuring [more]

  By: Justin Savage, Ogier A combination of diminished returns across the hedge fund industry amid challenging market conditions for generating alpha and a continued and increased focus on performance has given rise to a shift away from more traditional hedge fund products to the more attractive r

• 30. May. 2019 | Other Voices: ICOs and digital assets: a new and optional legal regime in France [more]

  By: Philippe Goutay, Linda Hesse, Jones Day The Situation: ICOs and digital assets have become a new phenomenon that has impacted many aspects of our modern economies and created an alternative way of financing for start-ups or small and medium-sized enterprises. The Result: T

• 22. May. 2019 | Other Voices: Show me the data: investors demand better ESG disclosures [more]

  By Jessie M. Gabriel and Lauren T. Attard of BakerHostetler Asset managers are always looking for a valuation edge. But even when key factors are identified, the data may not be available. This is particularly true with environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. No one will dispute their

• 17. May. 2019 | Other Voices: A round up of key trends in health care private equity investments [more]

  By: Foley & Lardner This conference season, private equity (PE) investors and provider compared notes on the current state of the markets, trends, opportunities and challenges. Below is a summary of key trends that have been discussed. A recent Health Care Private Equity Panel during the Yo

• 24. Apr. 2019 | Other Voices: Shareholder activism trends in the 2019 proxy season [more]

  By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, In 2018, robust U.S. and global M&A activity substantially mitigated the downside risk for activist investors. With political uncertainty ahead of the 2020 presidential election, unsettled questions on trade and tariffs, and the late 2018 market correcti

• 11. Apr. 2019 | Other Voices: Private equity and activism [more]

  By Amadeus Moeser, Sidley Austin LLP The relationship between private equity funds and activist hedge funds has always been double-edged. While in the past, engagements of activists often led to the sale of a target company or less profitable operations of a company to private equity funds, man

• 10. Apr. 2019 | Other Voices: Game changing fund of fund reforms ahead [more]

  by Carlton Fields On December 19, 2018, the SEC proposed rescinding most so-called fund of funds (FoF) exemptive orders and Rule 12d1-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Act) and replacing them with new Rule 12d1-4.1 Some of these reforms may have significant consequences for both fu

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NASDAQ 100 FUTURES – (@NQ – Sept.) – Mo.

Currently: Cash Looking to: Short at 8,060

As of 7/12/2019 close: 7,957.62

LAST WEEK: We suggested shorting up at 8,060 with stops on a close above 8,160 and with a target of 6,700.

UPDATE: NASDAQ 100 futures are certainly on a track to test out our revised projected ceiling at 8,060. There is strength in the charts of just about all the leading NASDAQ 100 stocks – but for how long. Right now, we’ll stick with the 8,060 as our projected ceiling. We would be selling longs and getting short at 8,060 with stops above 8,160 and with a downside target for covering and getting long of 6,700.