Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Irish global macro manager focuses on dollar bull market, up 7.5% YTD [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Three Rock Capital Management Ltd is a discretionary global macro manager based in Dublin, Ireland. The f

• Institutional investors appear more optimistic than last year on their plans to allocate to hedge funds [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: "Institutional investors appear more optimistic regarding their plans to allocate to hedge funds than they were this time last year, primarily because of their ability to generate uncorrelated returns and lower volatility in a broader investment portfolio," R

• BaFin grants preferential access rights to Gibraltar funds [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The German financial regulator (BaFin) has recently adopted a reciprocal private placement policy, according to Hassans, G

• RCM Alternatives and Attain Capital form partnership [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Independent broker RCM Alternatives has entered into an agreement to join forces with Attain Capital Management. Under the agreement, RCM will acquire Attain’s fund offerings, education, research and database assets while bringing all of its principals and employees

• SkyBridge opens office in Palm Beach County [more]

  Where better for a southern location than South Florida? SkyBridge Capital, which is headquartered in New York, has opened an office in Palm Beach Gardens. Palm Beach Gardens is a "Signature City" in northern Palm Beach County, with a population of around 49,000.

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: New dawn for Chinese equities as options trading starts [more]

  Rollout of Options in China By: SGX Market Updates China financial reforms could best be summed up in the late leader Deng Xiaoping’s words, "crossing a river by feeling the stones". On 9 February, Shanghai Stock Exchange launched China’s first financial options, the SSE50 ETF opti

More Exclusives

• 02. Mar. | Opalesque Roundup: dbSelect’s top ten FX strategies averaged almost 10% in January, trouncing hedge fund returns: hedge fund news, week 10 [more]

  In the week ending 27 February, 2015, a majority of hedge fund managers have identified regulation as the biggest challenge facing the industry this

• 27. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: SEC’s Mark J. Flannery warns hedge funds against valuation misconduct [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Securities and Exchange Commission chief economist and director of Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) Mark J. Flannery has warned of the risks posed by market misconduct, particularly in the true valuation of assets by hedge fund managers. In his

• 27. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: ISDA releases new principles for regulatory transparency [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) today published a paper that outlines a number of key principles and initiatives for regulators, market participants and industry service providers in order to further improve regulatory transparen

• 27. Feb. | Opalesque TV: Canadian systematic options strategy uses behavioral finance concepts as foundation [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: A Canadian physicist-turned-fund manager, who runs a systematic non-directional volatility arbitrage strategy which he developed over many years, explains his methodology. Dr. Andrew Cumming was an MIT-trained physicist before deciding to move into equi

• 26. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: dbSelect’s top ten FX strategies average almost 10% in January [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: In one of Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (AWM)’s hedge fund platforms, called dbSelect, a number of FX Strategies did very well in January. dbSelect is a managed investment platform for unf

• 23. Feb. | Opalesque Roundup: Hedge fund launches continue unabated: hedge fund news, week 09 [more]

  In the week ending 20 February, 2015, hedge funds have started their 2015 performance in the black as the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark gained 0.07% in January; 36 South Capital gained 2.5% from central-bank surprises; Dan Elsberry said he expects hedge fund returns to catch up w

• 20. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Very small CTA averages 6.90% per month since April’14 inception [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: There aren’t many one-man shops around in the hedge fund world but we talked to one. Andrew S. Peskin, who is ba

• 20. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Chessica funds reopen under the Mosaic banner [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: In early 2014, Alex Rabinovich, Managing Director of Chessica Asset Management, announced that the firm he co-founded with Victor Plotkin in 2009, had been acquired by Mosaic Investment Partners. Mosaic is a Washington, DC-based diversified financial services fi

• 20. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Skënderbeg launches four single-manager funds with Your Wealth AG [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Skënderbeg Funds AGmvK, an investment fund for qualified investors under Liechtenstein law (umbrella fund),

• 19. Feb. | Opalesque Roundtable: Swiss regulator 'stifling the growth of the smaller manager’ [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Delegates at the recent Opalesque Geneva Roundtable discussed the state of affairs of the local hedge fund industry; fewer managers, the regulatory or funding difficulties faced b

• 18. Feb. | Opalesque Roundtable: Many Swiss investors are questioning the value proposition of hedge funds [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: There is a well-known transition among investors in hedge funds between high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors, Ian Hamilton, head of the IDS Group, said during the recent

• 16. Feb. | Opalesque Roundup: Hedge fund assets raise again after fall of 3.28% in January: hedge fund news, week 08 [more]

  In the week ending 13 February, 2015, investors raised their hedge fund bets in February as asset subscription rose .63%; the hedge fund industry redeemed $29.1bn in December, its largest outflow since April 2009; Passage to India Opportunity Fund tripled investor’s money in 2014 after gainin

• 13. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Nowcasting is to forecasting what astronomy is to astrology [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Alexander Ineichen, founder of Ineichen Research and Management, an independent research firm based near Zurich, recently produced an interesting risk management research piece on forecasting and nowcastin

• 13. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: New Swiss rules on distribution of funds come into force on March 1st [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: A new regime governing the distribution of non-Swiss funds to Swiss investors comes fully into force on 1 March 2015. According to a report from

More Other Voices

• 12. Feb. 2015 | Other Voices: The danger of indices [more]

  This article was authored by Andrew Beer, founder of Beachhead Capital Management LLC in New York. You can download the full version here. W

• 11. Feb. 2015 | Other Voices: Red alert - be aware of a cornered Putin [more]

  By: David Murrin, Spartent Global Solutions We have already expressed our concern over Western policies in Ukraine that have pushed Russia away from the West into the hands of China, the negative consequences of which are expected to unfold with the next decade. However, since then, the fal

• 04. Feb. 2015 | Other Voices: 5 benefits of a mobile fund manager [more]

  By: Branden Jones, Liquid Holdings The digital revolution is transforming today’s fund manager. The days of being tied down to your desk to manage investments and handle investor inquiries are disappearing. In its place is a new mobile, connected, empowered fund manager that can carry the most i

• 28. Jan. 2015 | Other Voices: Why you should not follow Paul Singer on Informatica investment [more]

  This article was authored by Alex Gavrish, founder and CEO of Etalon Investment Research, and author of "Wall Street Back To Basics." Elliott Associate discloses Informatica stake On January 26th, 2014, an activist hedge fu

• 05. Dec. 2014 | Other Voices: The growing problem with performance fees [more]

  This white paper was authored by FundCalcs, an independent software provider based in Dublin, and Global Perspectives, an Irish consulting and research firm. It examines the trends si

• 04. Dec. 2014 | Other Voices: The evolving role of portfolio management, key trends and technology solutions for alternatives [more]

  This article was authored by AlternativeSoft, a provider in asset selection, portfolio construction and fund reporting software based in the UK and Switzerland, and Global Perspectiv

• 03. Dec. 2014 | Other Voices: Want to get a piece of the Swiss pension funds’ assets? [more]

  This article was authored by Gabriel Kurland, managing director at Montfort Funds, a FINMA licensed representative for foreign funds in Switzerland. Want to get your piece of the € 571 billion Swiss pension funds’ assets? Sho

• 02. Dec. 2014 | Other Voices: What Will happen to the Hedge Fund Industry if we Experience a 2008 Type Market Decline? [more]

  Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA – Managing Partner, Agecroft Partners With interest rates and credit spreads near historic lows and equity valuation above historical averages, many people are concerned that the Federal Reserve, by artificially keeping rates low, has created a 2007 type asset bubble i

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CBT - U.S. TEN YEAR NOTE (Dec) – Daily

Near Term Trend: Neutral
Monday's Trade: 126'249 (+ 19.0) Yield: 2.32%
UPDATE: When the SPX recovered, from its 10% correction, during the last four weeks; yields jumped (treasury price lower) nearly 50 basis points. Two weeks ago, as the December contract was trading 127'04, we highlighted, "Near term support is 126’00, but suspect". Subsequently, the contract dropped but has held above 126'00, even in light of SPX remaining bid. No Change: Sell rallies toward 127’08.