• Opalesque Exclusive: Good news on asset raising for hedge funds from Down Under and the Far East [more]

  By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: More potentially good news for the hedge fund industry, particularly long/short equity and macro managers, comes from Preqin, whose recent Hedge Fund Spot

• Opalesque Exclusive: Passport Capital’s global strategy loses on 2011 lack of market trend and liquidity [more]

  Bailey McCann Opalesque New York: San-Francisco based global investment firm Passport Capital reported its fourth quarter returns on Friday. The Passport Global Fund (Class A) was down 7.7% verses +7.3% for the MSCI AC World Index and +11

• Opalesque Exclusive: UK FSA shifts to twin peaks model, seeks industry guidance on AIFMD [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: In response to the global financial crisis and mounting political pressures to more aggressively regulate the financial services industry, the European Commission passed the

• Hedge funds begins new year with strong gains [more]

  HFRI Equity Hedge Index gains +3.84 percent in January; Emerging Markets gain +5.3 percent, leading broad-based advance Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds opened 2012 by posting broad-based gains in January, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index gaining +2.63 percent, the secon

• Asian hedge funds top equity markets again in 2011 [more]

  Opaleque Industry Update - Asian hedge funds outperformed volatile regional equity markets in 2011, marking the second consecutive year of such outperformance, according to data released today by HFR (Hedge Fund Research, Inc.), the leading provider of data, indices and analysis of the global hedge

• Hedge funds gain 1.27% in January / Best month for event-driven funds [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds ended a two-month losing streak, profiting from the January market surge. The Hedge Fund Intelligence Global Composite Index rose 1.27%. The equity market rally handily exceeded hedge fund returns, however, with the MSCI World Index (net) rising 5.02% for the

• 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

• 08. Feb. | Hedge funds gain 1.27% in January / Best month for event-driven funds [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds ended a two-month losing streak, profiting from the January market surge. The Hedge Fund Intelligence Global Composite Index rose 1.27%. The equity market rally

• 08. Feb. | Asian hedge funds top equity markets again in 2011 [more]

  Opaleque Industry Update - Asian hedge funds outperformed volatile regional equity markets in 2011, marking the second consecutive year of such outperformance, according to data released today by HFR

• 08. Feb. | Hedge funds begins new year with strong gains [more]

  HFRI Equity Hedge Index gains +3.84 percent in January; Emerging Markets gain +5.3 percent, leading broad-based advance Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge funds opened 2012 by posting broad-

• 07. Feb. | Hedge Funds Redeem $5.2 Billion in December 2011; Industry Assets Sink to Lowest Level in Nearly Two Years [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that hedge funds redeemed an estimated $5.2 billion in December 2011 and underperformed the S&P 500 for the year

• 07. Feb. | Alvine Capital appoints Alexander Münster Dahl as Client Relations Manager [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: Alvine Capital, an independent London based alternative advisory firm, has appointed Alexander Münster Dahl as Client Relations Manager. Alexander joins from Institutio

• 07. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: FRM forecasts outlook for hedge funds over 2012 [more]

  By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: Global hedge fund research and investment specialist Financial Risk Management (FRM) has produced its market summary for January 2012 and its outlook for the rest of t

• 07. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Frontier markets kicked off year with a good start: Consilium Frontier market fund is up 3.43% in January [more]

  From Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia: The frontier markets helped push the global equity markets off to a good start this year, giving a much needed market respite after a very difficult 2012. The MSCI Frontier Equity Index and Russell Frontier Equity Index ex-GCC gained +0.48% and +1.76%, respecti

• 07. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Eurofin chief investment officer believes 'crisis fatigue’ has set in for investment managers [more]

  By Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: James M.M. Edwards, Chief Investment Officer, Eurofin Capital, the Lausanne and London based privately owned investment company, posed the timely question ’A new year, a new set of chall

• 06. Feb. | bfinance builds advisory expertise in alternatives with major Hedge Fund hire [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update: In a major initiative to meet clients’ evolving needs in alternatives, bfinance, an independently owned consultancy firm providing specialist, customised and transparent fin

• 06. Feb. | Finisterre Capital launches first emerging market equity fund [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update – Finisterre Capital, the long/short emerging market total return specialist, has launched the Finisterre Equity Fund. Joint Portfolio Managers of the new fund are Alist

• 06. Feb. | SVM launches hedge fund partnership with Level E Capital [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - SVM Asset Management, the Edinburgh based investment boutique, has launched a strategic partnership with Level E Capital, the Edinburgh based hedge fund. SVM Asset Man

• 06. Feb. | PerTrac releases software program designed to help investors in hedge funds manage their portfolios [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update — PerTrac, the leading provider of analytics, reporting and communications software for investment professionals, today announced the latest release of PerTrac Portfolio, a s

• 06. Feb. | Former multi-billion dollar hedge fund manager Sal Naro to launch Coherence Capital Partners LLC [more]

  Industry Update - Sal Naro, former co-managing partner of Sailfish Capital, a $4.4 billion asset management firm with approximately $2 billion in hedge fund assets, is announcing the launch of Coheren

• 06. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Trouble in court for Gupta, Greenlight, Paulson, Tiger, Moody’s – and other hedge fund news, Week 5 [more]

  In the week-ending February 3, 2012, it was reported that Deutsche Bank is preparing to launch a fund to snap up investors’ illiquid of damaged holdings in hedge funds; London-based Ruby Capital Partners

• 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: 1339.10 (+ 16.40) UPDATE: Seven weeks ago, we highlighted, “The S&P convincingly settled above the blue downtrend line, and well above our Key Pivot Point of 1260.00 - due to the fact the Index settled at 1274.20, this should allow for the market to trade toward an initial target of 1325.00. As of six trading sessions ago, the S&P hit a high of 1329.50 – it was at that point our initial upside objective was met, as per, we felt a price retrace was going to follow, before the next phase of a rally. Specifically, we stated, “At this juncture, odds favor a price retrace, possibly back toward 1280.00”. Subsequently, at the beginning of last week the Index retraced 33.50 points lower to 1296.00. Unfortunately, the low of 1296.00 was about 15 point higher than my target. Index went on to rally 45 points, to end the week on a strong note. Key resistance next 11 points to 1350.00.