• Opalesque Exclusive: AIS Fund Administration launches first ever fully automated financial statement preparation tool [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Yearly financial statements take a significant amount of resources for both hedge funds and auditors. Typically a financial statement is comprised of a variety of excel spreadsheets providing account records and supporting documentation. The manual nature of fi

• Opalesque Exclusive: Baupost Group posts 2011 gain, announces new hires, promotions [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Baupost Group is a Boston-based hedge fund founded by Seth Klarman emphasizing risk management. In a letter to investors obtained by Opalesque, Klarman notes that despite rocky market conditions in the latter h

• Opalesque Exclusive: Naqvi-Van Ness A.M. hires new director of business development [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Naqvi-Van Ness Asset Management, a US-based research-intensive hedge fund manager, announced that Juan Buendia had joined the firm as Director of Business Development at the start of 2012. In a statement, the firm said that it brought Buendia to help secure str

• HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index up +1.06% (est) in mid-February [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Global Equity markets continued to build on January gains through mid-February, as investors focused on optimism with regard to both the US economy and European sovereign debt crisis. The US Dollar fell slightly against the major currencies, while Energy commodities rose,

• Other Voices: Who's watching your assets? Lessons from MF Global [more]

  The author is Deborah Prutzman,CEO, The Regulatory Fundamentals Group, a firm that provides an enterprise-wide view of the US laws that impact alternative asset managers and others involved in the field: In the wake of MF Global, it can be tempting to suggest myriad rules, which, if followed, wo

• 22. Feb. | HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index up +1.06% (est) in mid-February [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Global Equity markets continued to build on January gains through mid-February, as investors focused on optimism with regard to both the US economy and European sovereign d

• 21. Feb. | ASM Capital announces plans to purchase MF Global customer claims [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: ASM Capital, one of the largest domestic purchasers of bankruptcy claims, recently announced its intent to purchase investor claims in the MF Global Securities Investor Prot

• 21. Feb. | Morningstar reports hedge fund performance for January, asset flows through December [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today reported preliminary hedge fund performance for January 2012 as well as estima

• 21. Feb. | U.S. Bancorp Fund Services launches exchange traded fund multiple series trust, ETF Series Solutions [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update:U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC (USBFS) today announced the launch of its first exchange traded fund (ETF) multiple series trust (MST) and a partnership with Exchange Trade C

• 21. Feb. | Update: GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator measures 3.14% in February, up from 1.85% in January [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update – The GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for February 2012 measured 3.14%, up from 1.85% in Jan

• 21. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: IMQubator to launch business development network for emerging managers, expands into Asia [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Jeroen Tielman takes a unique approach to seeding. Tielman started in finance in 1986 at what is now known as ABN AMRO, working in corporate finance and M&A. He then went on to found FundPartners, an independent investment engineering boutique. Following that h

• 21. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Quest’s Barnett launches pan-Asian sibling to high performing Thai Focused Equity fund [more]

  By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: Quest Management Inc’s Doug Barnett is set to launch a pan-Asian ex-Japan hedge fund, the Greyhound Asia Fund, to run alongside his existing single country fund, the Thai Focused Equity Fund.

• 21. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Emanagers Total Index gains 2.72% in January after losing 1.6% in 2011 [more]

  Florian Guldner, Opalesque Research: Opalesque Ltd., a leading provider of online information services to the alternative investment industry, today announces the estimated January and updated 2011 year-end results for its series of indices tracking emerging hedge fund and managed futures fund m

• 20. Feb. | Palmer Square signs investment deal with LNG Capital [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: Palmer Square Capital Management, along with Montage Investments and Atlantic Asset Management, today announced a partnership with LNG Capital, a long/short European credit

• 20. Feb. | Creo Capital joins Vulpes Group [more]

  Vulpes is pleased to confirm the addition of Creo Capital and the appointment of Paul Cuthbert-­Brown as a Partner in Vulpes Investment Management. Creo Capital is an alternative investment fund compa

• 20. Feb. | All EDHEC hedge fund strategy indices up in January except for short selling [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - In January, the S&P 500 gained 4.48%, almost erasing the losses incurred since June 2011, while the implied stock market volatility continued to decrease, with the VIX retu

• 20. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: New China fund bets on domestic demand-related companies [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Mrs. Ching Shao, CEO of SMC China Fund, a fund management company head-quartered in Shanghai, was in Switzerland earlier this month to present the investment strategy for the Argos-SMC China F

• 20. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Rehn Capital Management launches new multi-futures approach [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Gerald Rehn has weathered difficult markets. He started at Fidelity in 1999, moving into their NASDAQ trading team in 2000, worked at Lehman Brothers until 2008 and eventually became a Senior Vice President at the Abu Dhabi Investment Company. In 2011, he form

• 20. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Asian fund managers told to embrace new rules of engagement and to have ingenuity to survive [more]

  From Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia: Asian fund managers should have tenacity and are required to have ingenuity in order to survive the challenging environment in the region, said Cerulli Assocates in its latest

• 27. Jan. 2012 | Other Voices: A Very Crowded Trade [more]

  This article was authored by Richard Harris, fund manager at Port Shelter Investment Management, based in Hong Kong. He compares the investment management industry to what it was like 26 years ago. I remember a former Managing Director asking me to write a message to Head Office on a blank

• 16. Dec. 2011 | Other Voices: The truth about hedge fund risk [more]

  This article was authored by Charles T. Hage. Mr. Hage is currently Compliance Officer at U.S.-based firm Mohican Financial Management, LLC. During his career he has reviewed financial performance measures in alternative investments and managed financial risk in corporate investment programs.

• 01. Nov. 2011 | Other Voices: Agecroft Partners believes Hedge fund branding drives a majority of asset flows [more]

  By: Don Steinbrugge, Chairman of Agecroft Partners, a global consulting and third party marketing firm for hedge funds: Since the market correction of 2008, a vast majority of hedge fund net asset flows have gone to a small minority of hedge funds with the strongest brands, marking a change

• 26. Oct. 2011 | Other Voices: Africa needs flexible capital as well as patient capital [more]

  By Kayode Akindele, Funsho Allu and Fred Binka: partners of 46 Parallels LLP, an investment management business based in London and Lagos. The current focus on supplying finance to the microfinance/SME sector is admirable, but orphans a swathe of important companies across Sub Saharan Africa (SS

• 10. Oct. 2011 | Other Voices: 50 proposals for reform and reclamation, in solidarity with the Wall Street protesters and the 99 Percenters [more]

  By Dr. David E. McClean, lecturer in philosophy and business ethics, Rutgers University & Molloy College, and Principal, The DMA Consulting Group Part of the problem was that only in an environment of crisis can the self-regulators galvanize themselves to actions that they couldn't otherwise

• 07. Oct. 2011 | Other Voices: Post-Weavering - independent or affiliated fund directors? [more]

  By Victor Murray, LLB, PG Dip LP, Accredited Director and who has been resident in the Cayman Islands from 2002. He is the Assistant Secretary of the Cayman Islands Directors Association. He is admitted as a Lawyer in New York and as a Solicitor in Scotland. He has considerable offshore fund experi

• 29. Sep. 2011 | Other Voices: Operation Twist will prevail – but will take time [more]

  Written by: Stuart Thomson, Chief Market Economist, Ignis Asset Management. Issued by Ignis Investment Services Ltd. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. This article contains the personal views of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Ignis Asset Management.

• 24. Aug. 2011 | Other Voices: Hedge fund net flows will hold up much better if we see another 2008 type market decline [more]

  This article was authored by Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA, Managing Partner of Agecroft Partners, a global consulting and third party marketing firm for hedge funds based in Richmond, VA. After the market decline of 2008, the hedge fund industry experienced a significant contraction that was drive

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Intermediate Trend (3 Months): Positive Friday’s Close: 1359.70 (+ 4.90) UPDATE: This past week, the market continued to grind higher, trading within six points of the May high of 1367.00. The market remains overextended but thus far it still has not backed off. Late comers to the market continue to trickling in, but the risk of a dip toward 1290.00 within the next few weeks is highly probable.