Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Classic Auto Funds Limited (CAF) launches several car investing funds [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: A new trend in alternative alternatives is emerging - car appreciation funds. Classic Auto Funds Limited (CAF) is the first to market with several funds that make super elite luxury cars into real asset investments. As a result of growing overseas demand couple

• Opalesque Exclusive: Trends in alternative investments - First Trust Advisors [more]

  Mark Melin, Opalesque Futures Intelligence, Chicago: In this interview, Opalesque Futures Intelligence Editor Mark Melin discusses current trends in alternative investing with Rob Guttschow and John Gambla of First Trust Advisors Mark Melin: Can you just describe the benefits of

• Opalesque Exclusive: Asian volatility fund prefers to wait for the larger moves [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Here is a fund that manages to keep year on year positive returns thanks to its extensive use of Asian convertibles to trade volatility, as well as index option

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: Event driven strategy outlook: Broader focus required [more]

  This article was authored by Alex Gavrish, founder and CEO of Etalon Investment Research, and author of "Wall Street Back To Basics."

More Exclusives

• 16. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: PIMCO alums launch unconstrained credit fund [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The original architects of PIMCO's Unconstrained Bond Fund have teamed up for a new unconstrained fund utilizing their existing experience and best new ideas. The Anfield Universal Fixed Income Fund (AFLIX), takes a "go anywhere" approach to managing fixed i

• 16. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge fund replicators evolve [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Hedge fund replicators as a group of products tend to get a bad rap from hedge fund managers who suggest that the best a replicator can offer is dynamic beta capture. A

• 15. Apr. | Opalesque TV: Regulatory extraterritoriality is not all that bad [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Two compliance experts discuss financial regulatory extraterritoriality, the current confusion among European fund marketers, new managers’ stance toward the AIFMD, and the beauty of technology within compliance practices. Extraterritoriality, the ap

• 14. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Oldest and biggest hedge funds have the most assets: hedge fund news, week 16 [more]

  In the week ending 11 April, 2014, the oldest and biggest hedge funds have the most assets according to the latest data from eVestment; Capstone Investment

• 11. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: The Flash Boys flash mob [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Michael Lewis' new book Flash Boys released last week to great fanfare, and some very real investigations into market activity. In the book, Lewis blends two of his familiar plot lines wall street and plucky idealism. Lewis, former creature of the t

• 11. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Opportunity to extract alpha from structured credit 'now much more difficult' [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Structured credit went out of fashion in 2008, then back again four years later. The asset class still offers attractive rewards for the bold, yet sagacious inv

• 10. Apr. | Opalesque Radio: Geopolitical risk can create buying and selling opportunities in equity market [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: William Davies is Head of Global Equity at Threadneedle Investments. Drawing on his 27 years of experience, he shares his outlook on global equity market in a recent

• 10. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Pensions, endowments, family offices reconsider life settlement investments [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Hedge funds were once the largest investors in the life settlement industry, now the industry is seeing more interest from pensions, endowments and family offices directly. Life settlements have always been considered a niche part of the investing landscape, an

• 09. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: New global macro fund follows manager’s own growth and inflation indicators, not market prices [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: The Aimed Global Alpha Fund is a systematic fundamental global macro fund, which trading decisions are generated from proprietary models that analyses big data

• 08. Apr. | Opalesque TV: First Trust Advisors launches liquid alternatives platform [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: First Trust Advisors is launching a new liquid alternatives platform aimed at building on the companies existing alternative ETFs offering by adding hedged mutual funds. Senior Portfolio Managers Rob Guttschow and John Gambla recently sat down in an

• 08. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: European stock-picking fund up 19% YTD, bets on small caps’ high cash level [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Here is a European long/short equity fund that has been beating the odds since its 2008 inception by employing its own investment model, frequent company visits

• 07. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Pension funds now largest and fastest growing hedge fund investors: hedge fund news, week 15 [more]

  In the week ending 04 April, 2014, EDHEC-Risk Institute cautioned institutional investors on portfolio diversification; pension funds are now the largest and fastest growing investor in the hedge fund industry; Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund at Pimco, forecasted a lo

• 04. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: 361 Capital launches managed futures liquid alternative fund [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: 361 Capital has launched a new Fund, the 361 Global Managed Futures Strategy Fund (AGFZX & AGFQX). The fund was started on Feburary 12, 2014, and has posted a 5.6% return since inception. This is the second managed futures fund for 361, the flagship Managed Futu

• 02. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Impact investing market matures catching the eye of investors, hedge funds [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Impact investing is often lumped into corporate social responsibility, philanthropic investing, and other sorts of "feel good" investment schemes where investors have a cause and don't look much at the return. However, through the growth of technology and n

More Other Voices

• 13. Mar. 2014 | Other Voices: Two unanswered questions about alternative betas [more]

  By: Andrew Beer, Beachhead Capital Management Alternative betas, or risk premia, are established investment strategies that are simple enough to automate with a computer but too complicated for most investors to implement directly. For instance, you can program a computer to buy "value" stocks a

• 11. Mar. 2014 | Other Voices: Fortress Europe? New UCITS V rules could be cumbersome for US fund managers [more]

  By: Kaye Scholer Attorneys The European Parliament and Council recently agreed on the substance of the new UCITS V Directive, which will include safeguards to protect client assets in the event of a depositary’s insolvency and also address remuneration practices that are thought to encourage e

• 03. Mar. 2014 | Other Voices: Not so easy to replicate activist hedge funds and achieve similar performance [more]

  This article was authored by Alex Gavrish, founder and CEO of Etalon Investment Research, and author of "Wall Street Back To Basics." With the amount of activist investments on the rise during the last few years, more and more media at

• 24. Feb. 2014 | Other Voices: The real impact of the JOBS Act [more]

  This article was authored by Phil Niles Head of CET - Americas at Mitsubishi UFJ Fund Services. Back in June 2012, I published a piece outlining

• 21. Feb. 2014 | Other Voices: CTA/CPO capital requirements; more harm than good? [more]

  By: James Bibbings, President, Turnkey Trading Partners In late January 2014 the National Futures Association ("NFA") announced to its membership they were: "…reviewing the current regulatory structure applicable to Commodity Pool Operator ("CPO") and Commodity Trading Advisor ("CTA") operat

• 20. Jan. 2014 | Other Voices: A practitioner’s scorecard to hedge fund replication [more]

  This article was authored by Andrew Beer, founder of Beachhead Capital Management LLC in New York. Below is the first part; you can download the full version of the article here.

• 31. Dec. 2013 | Other Voices: Cayman regulator agrees to database providing director transparency [more]

  By: Kevin Ryan, HedgeDirector Ltd The Cayman Islands financial regulator CIMA has revealed proposals to create a public database showing details of offshore directors’ workloads. This move follows a long campaign by investor pressure groups who have been lobbying CIMA to help them in their due d

• 07. Nov. 2013 | Other Voices: Why fee reduction is the purest form of alpha [more]

  This article as authored by Andrew Beer, CEO of U.S.-based Beachhead Capital Management. You can access the full version by clicking on the link at the bottom. In this note, we examine the relationship between the hedge fund

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CME- Australian Dollar vs. U.S. Dollar - Daily

Near Term Trend: Positive
Friday's Close: 0.9392 (- 18)
UPDATE: NO CHANGE: Over five weeks ago the Aussie broke out, to the upside, above the downtrend line. In doing so, it appears to have completed an inverted head and shoulder pattern. As we wrote five weeks ago - We still believe the Aussie could trade as high as 0.94500. That objective was met last Thursday. We captured the entire rally. At this juncture, I would book profits an all long positions, and look for a price retrace.