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11. Dec. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Finance industry an instrumental part of the Swiss economy [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:The finance industry is an instrumental part of the Swiss economy, said André Valente, Head UBS Fund Services Switzerland during Terrapinn’s recent Hedge Funds World conference
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10. Dec. |
Opalesque Roundtable: Tax efficient investing in hedge funds presents specific opportunity [more]
Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London:The Opalesque 2013 New York Roundtable, sponsored by Maples Fund Services, Eurex
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10. Dec. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge funds on pace for returns 150bps over 2012, eVestment releases forecasting report [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:Hedge funds posted positive returns in November of +1.1% bringing year to date gains up to 8.2% according to the latest performance data from eVestment. In addition to monthly performance data, the company is also out with a 2013 year in review, and 2014 forecast
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09. Dec. |
Opalesque Exclusive: UK hedge funds might relocate: hedge fund news, week 49 [more]
In the week ending 06 Dec, 2013, experts in Europe warned that UK hedge funds might relocate because of the government’s crackdown on partnerships; the Co-operative Bank bondholders voted overwhelmingly to allow hedge funds to take major stakes in the new group; European charities have demand
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06. Dec. |
Opalesque Radio: No massive bubbles in sight 'except perhaps for real estate in China, government debts, bonds’ [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:As U.S. stock indices and some other asset prices are reaching dizzying heights this year despite low growth and high unemployment, many are worrying about possible bubbles.
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06. Dec. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Cybersecurity, a key risk for financial firms over the next year [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:Cybersecurity seems to be topping the list of potential risk factors for financial firms heading into the new year. Booz Allen Hamilton, providers of technology, security, and former employer of Edward Snowden, have released their annual cybersecurity trend fore
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05. Dec. |
Opalesque Roundtable: Regulators should focus more on 'non-sophisticated’ hedge funds [more]
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia:Market regulators should focus more on non-sophisticated hedge funds rather than concentrate on so-called sophisticated players, said Paul MacGregor, Managing Director of Product Strategy at FFastFill during the latest
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05. Dec. |
Opalesque TV: As CTAs evolve, specialists focus on a new high tech niche [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:CTAs have had a rough couple of years. Close watchers of the group will note that this happens every so often based on the uncorrelated nature of those funds. For investors though, it can be difficult to tell that and discern who will be the winners when things
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04. Dec. |
Opalesque TV: SA2’s global fundamental quantitative macro funds use Japan as a model [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:An emerging hedge fund manager and former start trader, who runs global macro funds applying fundamental and quantitative strategies in London, talks about the lessons he learned while at Lehman and Credit Suisse.
Equipped with a
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04. Dec. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Kenneth D. Brody, co-founder, Taconic Capital Advisors to retire [more]
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:Kenneth D. Brody, co-‐founder
of
Taconic
Capital
Advisors,
a
multi-‐strategy,
event-‐
driven
hedge
fund,
founded
in
1999, will retire effective January 1, 2014, according to a letter to investors sent Tuesday. Taconic manages approximately $8
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03. Dec. |
Opalesque Roundtable: Market participation, risk management and cost of regulations worry hedge fund managers [more]
Precy Dumlao, Opalesque Asia:Low participation rate in markets, sophisticated risk management and the cost of regulation
are the major challenges that worries investors, hedge fund managers who participated in the latest Opa
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03. Dec. |
Opalesque Exclusive: The Emanagers Total Index gained 1.59% in October, 3.9% YTD [more]
Emerging manager hedge funds had a positive month in October 2013, according to an estimation based on the data of 169 funds listed in Opalesque Solutions' Emanagers database.
The Emanagers Total Index was up 1.59%
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02. Dec. |
Opalesque Exclusive: Global banks and asset managers to launch more Asian hedge funds: hedge fund news, week 48 [more]
In the week-ending 29 November, 2013, according to Vestment hedge funds saw seven months of consecutive positive performance as at end October as as
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02. Dec. |
Opalesque Roundtable: 40 Act fund space is promising but some funds may not have true liquidity [more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:Panelists at the recent Alternative Assets Summit in Las Vegas said that costs to bring a '40 Act to market had dropped significantly and
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05. Nov. 2013 |
Other Voices: Survey illustrates Big Data management challenges, firms appoint 'Chief Data Officers’ [more]
This article was authored by Alessandro Ferrari, who heads up global marketing outreach for RIMES, which serves the growing
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29. Oct. 2013 |
Other Voices: Roadmap to absolute returns, part 2 [more]
By: Rene Levesque, Founder, Mountjoy Capital
When asked about the behavioral and personality characteristics of the successful traders, Mr. Schwager, author of several books on Market Wizards, answers with the following: "People who are suc
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28. Oct. 2013 |
Other Voices: Roadmap to absolute returns, part 1 [more]
By: Rene Levesque, Founder, Mountjoy Capital
"Past Performance Is No Guarantee Of Future Results" The studies are well documented on the fact that manager selection based on trailing performance metrics is a losing proposi
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23. Oct. 2013 |
Other Voices: No, Bloomberg, the managed futures industry is not a scam [more]
This piece was contributed by Jeff Malec CAIA, CEO, Founding Partner, Attain Capital Management.
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12. Sep. 2013 |
Other Voices: The curious case of Asian volatility [more]
This piece was contributed by David Shin, Associate Director, PAAMCO Singapore
The volatility of
volatility is
generally higher
in Asian markets
than in other
developed
markets. Also,
Asian markets
typically have
skews
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05. Sep. 2013 |
Other Voices: Warren Buffet - Dump your equities and keep the dividends [more]
This open letter to Warren Buffet is from Jad Comair, Founder and CIO
Melanion Capital, Paris.
In finance, a dividend future is an Exchange-traded derivative contract that allows investors to take positions on future dividend payme
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09. Aug. 2013 |
Other Voices: JOBS Act: What if a hedge fund manager is initially enamored of the new rules and starts to advertise, but later changes his mind? [more]
This article was authored by Jay B. Gould, San Francisco-based lawyer at Pillsbury, a global law firm, and posted on Pillsbury’s
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25. Jul. 2013 |
Other Voices: A discussion of risk, intelligence and trading [more]
This article was authored by Alistair Evans of Qbasis Invest, a CTA investment firm based in Austria, in which he interviews Dr Dylan Evans on the subject of risk intelligence. (Note: this is an extract of the first part; you can
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Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:The finance industry is an instrumental part of the Swiss economy, said André Valente, Head UBS Fund Services Switzerland during Terrapinn’s recent Hedge Funds World conference - News Briefs – JPMorgan files patent for Bitcoin-style payment system[more]
JPMorgan Chase has filed a U.S. patent application for a computerized payment system that resembles some aspects of Bitcoin, the controversial virtual currency. Like Bitcoin, JPMorgan’s proposed system would allow people to make anonymous, electronic payments over the internet, without having to rev - Comment – Asset managers could blow us all up[more]
From FT.com: The most sobering lesson of the global financial crisis was that developments expected to increase resilience – in that case, the “originate and distribute” model of finance – turned out to reduce it. Does a similar danger now threaten stability? Yes. The next round of global illiquidit - Opalesque Exclusive: New real estate long/short fund up 8.5% YTD by capitalising on mis-priced securities[more]
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:
Midwest Advisors, a new asset manager located in St. Louis, Missouri, was founded by Rick Murray, an ex-manager at Hovde Capital Advisors LLC, who wanted to capitalize on 15 y - Asset Liability Management (ALM): Reactions to an EDHEC Study on Asset-Liability Management Decisions in Private Wealth Management - October 2008:
“... ALM leads to the construction of more efficient portfolios than does standard asset management by explicitly making personal liabilities a part of the asset allocation equation."…
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