Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Caymans' AML requirements still a bit up in the air [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva: The Cayman Islands' anti-money laundering (AML) requirements are still a bit up in the air, according to Bill Prew, CEO/founder at Indos Financial. Even though all open-ended, Cayman-domiciled hedge funds had t

• Hedge fund launches and liquidations on decline while fund performance dispersion widens significantly in 2018 [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: New hedge fund launches hit an 18-year low during 2018. The fund liquidations also declined during the year, hitting their lowest point since 2007. According to Hedge Fund Research (HFR) report, new hedge fund launches fell to conclude 2018, as the number of 4Q18 l

• Cisco projects $9.7bn will be spent annually on blockchain projects by 2021 [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The blockchain has the potential to hold as much as 10% of the world's GDP, said 'Blockchain by Cisco' report. This means that several trillion dollars worth of value could be stored on both decentralized and permissioned blockchains by 2027. Cisco al

• Fiera Capital to buy Integrated Asset Management for $74m [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Montreal-based Fiera Capital announced that it is set to acquire Toronto-based Integrated Asset Management (IAM) for a total consideration of $74m. The CAD136.7bn ($102bn) global asset manager has agreed with IAM to buy all of the shares of the $3.1bn alternative a

• Litigation funder Therium Capital to launch $430m fund [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Therium Capital Management, a Channel Islands-based litigation funder, is launching a new $430m fund, bringing the total value of its institutional investments to over $1bn. The fresh investment has been gleaned from two existing investors and, for the first time,

• Hedge funds beat the stock market last year for the first time in five years [more]

  From Barrons: The hedge fund industry is alive and while not doing well, is doing OK. The Back Story: The choppy waters of the fourth-quarter's volatile markets were tough to navigate for most investors. Lo and behold: The ones who are supposed to be the smartest, and equipped with the fanciest tool

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: Hong Kong's SFC puts hedge funds under the microscope with complexity rule [more]

  By: Rory Gallaher, Deacons Under the revised Code of Conduct for Persons Licensed by or Registered with the Securities and Futures Commission, which is scheduled to come into effect on 6 April 2019, intermediaries must determine whether a product they are selling is a complex product. If a prod

More Exclusives

• 22. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: New research looks at how many ICOs turn out to be scams [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Are Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) a scam? New research from Daniel Liebau and Patrick Schueffel looks at a group of ICOs from 2016 to determine how many offerings were fraudulent and what investors can do to safeguard their capital. The work was presented at the

• 21. Mar. | Anant Jatia wins ABN AMRO's 'AIF Factor' for most convincing hedge fund pitch in Amsterdam [more]

  Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Launched in 2011, the ABN AMRO Amsterdam Investor Forum (AIF) is a landmark event in the Netherlands for the Alternative Investment Industry and organized by ABN AMRO Clear

• 20. Mar. | Opalesque Roundtable: Hedge fund managers and service providers rethink business models in the era of low fees [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: Delegates at the recent Opalesque Cayman Roundtable say that managers and service providers are rethinking business models in response to growing pressure to cut c

• 18. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: OPIM launches FX hedge fund focused on G10 currencies [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Another fund has launched on OP Investment Management (OPIM), a Hong Kong-based hedge fund platform; the Spectron FX Fun

• 18. Mar. | Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds snap back +4.55% after a hard-hearted 2018: hedge fund news, week 10 [more]

  In the week ending March 15th 2019, a report revealed that the first two months of 2019 offered up the hedge funds industry's best returns to start a year since 2012, when average ret

• 14. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Research suggests artificial intelligence could take the bias out of hiring [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Could artificial intelligence (AI) help add diversity to hiring and make industries like tech or finance less homogeneous? New research from Kimberly Houser, Assistant Professor at the Spears Business School at Oklahoma State University, suggests that taking hum

• 13. Mar. | Spring Valley Asset Management launches Diversified Alpha Portfolio, appoints Brett Palatiello as partner [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: New Jersey-based alternative investment firm Spring Valley Asset Management (SVAM) announced the launch of the SVAM Diversified Alpha Portfolio, a multi-dimensional, systematic trading system. "We apply creative modeling techniques to a rich set of fundamental and

• 11. Mar. | Opalesque Roundup: Some of the largest multi manager hedge funds advanced in February: hedge fund news, week 10 [more]

  In the week ending March 08th 2019, various reports said many of the hedge fund industry's biggest multi-manager firms advanced in February. Ken Griffin-led Citadel's flagship multi-strategy funds, Izzy Englander's Millennium Management, ExodusPoint Capital Management, Point72 Asset Mana

• 08. Mar. | Opalesque Roundtable: PGGM pushes finance to rethink how ESG/impact investing is viewed [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: When Dutch pension fund PGGM set the goal of €20 billion invested in impact/ESG solutions by 2020, the organization recognized that it would have to do a lot of the work around metrics on its own. Speaking at the recent Opalesque Netherlands Roundtable, Piet Klo

• 05. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Impax Asset Management invests in World Bank bonds designed to empower women [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The World Bank has announced a $4 million, three-year sustainable bond issue focusing on UN Sustainable Development Goal 5-to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Impax Asset Management will be the sole investor in the new issue through its P

• 04. Mar. | Opalesque Roundup: Private equity and hedge funds fail to improve gender balance in almost two years: hedge fund news, week 09 [more]

  In the week ending March 1st, 2019, a latest analysis of female representation revealed that the hedge fund and private equity industries' overall gender balance has shown little to no

• 01. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: D.E. Shaw examines the negative correlation [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The emergence of a negative correlation between stocks and bonds as a result of central bank involvement in the market is not just a significant shift in monetary policy. A new paper from D.E. Shaw argues that it also has profound implications for portfolio con

• 01. Mar. | Tikehau Capital doubles AUM in two years, expands to New York [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Paris-based Tikehau Capital reported total AUM of over €22bn as of Dec. 31, 2018 - more than doubling its AUM within two years. The alternative asset manager focuses on private debt, real estate, private equity and liquid strategies. Tikehau, had set a goal

• 28. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Prime Factor Capital launches crypto fund [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: London-based Prime Factor Capital has launched a new hedge fund focused on making investments in cryptocurrencies. The firm has also closed an equity financing ro

More Other Voices

• 26. Feb. 2019 | Other Voices: Three investor bugbears fund managers could easily avoid [more]

  By: Karen Fountain, Brodies Here are three "unforced errors" which could be easily avoided. At every industry conference I have attended there has been an investor panel session where deeply felt frustrations have been vented. There is, of course, an inevitable commercial tension b

• 17. Jan. 2019 | Other Voices: Markets in a new key - A theory of meaning and market segmentation [more]

  By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Capital Ltd; author of "Story Investing". A recent article

• 11. Jan. 2019 | Other Voices: How the SEC's list of examination priorities will affect private fund advisors [more]

  By: Jones Day, LLP On December 20, 2018, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released its 2019 Examination Priorities in which OCIE detailed key areas where OCIE currently intends to focus its resources in 2019. The Report cont

• 31. Dec. 2018 | Other Voices: Hedge fund marketing blurs the line on BDCs [more]

  by Dechert LLP: In December 2018, the SEC announced two enforcement actions involving business development companies (BDCs) - one against Fifth Street Management, LLC, the former external registered investment adviser to two BDCs, and the other against KCAP Financial, Inc., an internally managed BD

• 04. Dec. 2018 | Other Voices: How do we solve the public pension fund crisis in the US? Are hedge funds to blame? [more]

  By: Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA - CEO, Agecroft Partners An article recently published about the grossly underfunded Kentucky State Retirement System suggests that gambling on high fee hedge funds and private equity funds, and the use of placement agents, were primarily to blame. For many readers

• 13. Nov. 2018 | Other Voices: Alternative data could pose risks for fund managers [more]

  By: Joshua M Newville and Jeffrey Neuburger, Proskauer The WSJ recently published an article detailing how companies are monetizing smartphone location data by s

• 31. Oct. 2018 | Other Voices: How to take advantage of the current market sell-off [more]

  By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Capital Ltd; author of "Story Investing" Alex Gavrish explains

• 18. Oct. 2018 | Other Voices: Does hedge-fund activism really increase shareholder value? [more]

  By: Cydney Posner, Cooley, LLP The public debate about hedge-fund activism has long been informed by academic literature that found increases in shareholder value and operating performance after activist interventions. But do hedge-fund activists actually do any long-term good for the companies

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Weekly US Jobless Claims Data Averages:

Last week’s claims #: 221,000

4-Week Average of Claims: 225,000

Prior Week’s 4-Week Average: 224,000

13-Week Average of Claims: 225,077

Prior Week’s 13-Week Average: 224,769

Comments: Weekly claims came in lower week over week at 221,000 on Thursday. However, that number brought both the 4-week average lower and the 13-week averages higher. For the 4-week avg to rise next week, we would need to see the weekly number come in above 226,000. Pair rising numbers here with yield inversion and you get some cause for growth concerns.