Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Direct investment, managed accounts gain traction with family offices [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Family offices are key sources of capital allocations for hedge funds. Peter Fletcher of the Parly Family Office has been investing in hedge funds for several years. Fletcher, now based in Switzerland was

• Opalesque Exclusive: Filtering risk premia to achieve diversification is the focus of consultants in the hedge fund space [more]

  By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: Towers Watson’s recent two papers on the state of the hedge fund industry were reported on in Opalesque. Damien Loveday,

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: The JOBS Act and its impact on foreign private issuers [more]

  This article was authored by Alex Bafi, Partner, and Dinesh Banani, Senior Associate at Herbert Smith, an international law firm. On 5 April 2012, President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the "JOBS Act")

More Exclusives

• 18. May. | Barclay Hedge Fund Index down 0.44% in April, remains up 5.05% YTD [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update – Hedge funds lost 0.44% in April 2012, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge.

• 18. May. | HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index down 1.22% in mid-May (+2.01% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Global equities continued and extended declines through mid-May, with investors focused on weak US employment data, resurgence of Euro sovereign debt risks and trading loss

• 18. May. | Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index fell -0.46% in April (+4.0% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge fund managers produced mixed results in April but lost ground on average as the Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index fell 0.46% in the month. Long-Short Credit, Fixed In

• 17. May. | Other Voices: The JOBS Act and its impact on foreign private issuers [more]

  This article was authored by Alex Bafi, Partner, and Dinesh Banani, Senior Associate at Herbert Smith, an international law firm. On 5

• 17. May. | Opalesque Exclusive: Regulatory environment pushes more hedge funds to the cloud [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The growing regulatory environment is pushing more hedge funds to the cloud according to the Abacus Group. Chris Grandi, managing director of the US-based cloud provider, explains that as the reporting and transparency burdens grow for funds many are moving i

• 17. May. | Opalesque Exclusive: Van Eck: exposure in gold producers is perfect hedge against price movement [more]

  From Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The Qatari Royal Family’s $10bn investments in gold producers make a lot of sense, according to Uwe Eberle, Managing Director of Van Eck Global during the latest

• 16. May. | AIMA Canada publishes new AIMA Canada handbook [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: AIMA Canada, the Canada National Group of the Alternative Investment Management Association, the global hedge fund industry association, today released the AIMA Canada Handb

• 16. May. | Chicago Board of Options Exchange and China Financial Futures Exchange sign a memorandum of understanding [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) announced today that they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which establ

• 16. May. | Agecroft Partners hires hedge fund veteran [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Agecroft Partners, a global hedge fund consulting and third party marketing firm, has hired hedge fund veteran Cara Fleckenstein as a Managing Director. Cara bring

• 16. May. | Harcourt Investment Consulting appoints new head of alternative investments [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Harcourt, a subsidiary of Vontobel Asset Management, has appointed Jan Viebig and Georg Wessling to further expand and strengthen its expertise in alternative investments.

• 16. May. | Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index down 0.24% (est.) in April (+3.60% YTD), funds attracted US$10.4bn [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - This month's Eurekahedge Report reports on a somewhat flat month for the industry. Negative returns in April affected most regional hedge funds a

• 16. May. | Swiss fund of hedge funds manager Gottex to acquire Hong Kong-based alternative asset manager Penjing [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited (Gottex), a leading independent global alternative asset management group w

• 16. May. | Opalesque Exclusive: Optimal Fund Management Australia takes the long view on Long/Short Equity [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Optimal Fund Management Australia runs an Australia/New Zealand long-short equity fund with a large-cap focus. The fund was founded by George Colman and Peter Whiting as part of the Optimal Group. Both men were

• 16. May. | Opalesque Exclusive: Park Hill to represent new credit hedge fund manager MeehanCombs [more]

  From Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Global placement agent Park Hill Group, which has $126.4bn of commitments for its private equity and hedge fund clients, has selected MeehanCombs LP as the credit opportunities hedge fund manager

More Other Voices

• 27. Mar. 2012 | Other Voices: How ironic – economic growth may be the poison pill to the 2012 bull market [more]

  The author, Steven Michael, is the Founder, Principal & Chief Investment Officer of Stonehenge Asset Management. He has over 25 years experience in the alternative management space. His extensive financial career began in 1985 on the trading floor of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). He is also a

• 23. Mar. 2012 | Other Voices: Not your father's hedge fund industry [more]

  Authored by Matt Nelson, Executive Director, Strategy at Omgeo LLC, a financial operations expert, this article looks at the consequences of pending regulations on the hedge fund industry. Much of discussion on the regulatory changes fa

• 05. Mar. 2012 | Other Voices: Know the difference between conviction and clarity in marketing [more]

  This article was authored by Diane Harrison, principal and owner of Panegyric Marketing, a marketing communications firm founded in 2002 that specializes in a wide range of strategy and writing services within the alternative assets sector

• 29. Feb. 2012 | Other Voices – Inefficiencies in the Emerging Markets High Yield Debt Asset Class [more]

  From André Simon, Galloway Capital (www.gallowaycapital.com): There is a common belief that Emerging Markets High Yield (EM HY) should pay a higher yield than their US HY peers (difference is currently around 200bps) because of EM’s lack of Rule of Law, which in turn affects EM’s recovery rate

• 02. Feb. 2012 | 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

• 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

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CME - S&P 500 INDEX (CASH) Daily

Near Term Trend: Negative

Friday’s Close: 1295.22 (- 9.64)

UPDATE: On April 9th, we went short the S&P 500 Index, well before the crowd realized the market was turning bearish. We placed a daily stop at 1402.40. Unfortunately we were stopped out, as the Index settled at 1403.36, four weeks ago. As we said at the time, “We may have been whipsawed”. As it turned out that was exactly the case. That particular day we were stopped out, was the highest point the market has traded in the last four weeks

We do however remain short the NASDAQ Index from April 2, from 2,752.00

Our theme since going short has not wavered as we have been allowing the weakness in the market to work for us. In addition, for the last two weeks we have noted price overhead is well defined.
1284.00 is the start of key near term support.