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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
This article was authored by Alex Gavrish, founder and CEO of Etalon Investment Research, and author of "Wall Street Back To Basics."
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: BNY Mellon, an investment management and investment services company, believes that shale gas, emerging markets’ political agendas, healthcare in the U.S. and emerging markets, out-of-fashion property areas
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Another new entrant to the liquid alternatives space - Context Asset Management has launched a new mutual fund Context Alternative Strategies Fund (CALTX), a multi-manager, multi-strategy fund. Context principals Steve Kneeley and John Culbertson have prior ex
Matthias Knab, Opalesque: Taurus Orators, the well-known alternative thinking group, have persuaded the Maltese Authorities to declare the Maltese island of Filfla as a tax free zone to encourage hedge fund managers to move to Malta and to domicile funds within the EU. The Three Maltese Island
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: CTAs have taken a beating performance wise lately, and asset flows reports show that investors aren't sticking around to see how the movie ends. Now, a new white paper from Roy Niederhoffer and Coen Weddepohl notes that as interest rates start to tick back u
Big hedge funds bought Puerto Rico's junk bonds From Reuters.com: Several large hedge funds doubled down on Puerto Rico in last month's giant bond sale despite the U.S. territory's financial struggles, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing confidential documents reviewed by the newspa
From Reuters.com: With large bets on Russia and North American gold miners, one of the best performing stock pickers in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis is back with a new fund that reflects his deep aversion to following the crowd. In the Kopernik Global All-Cap Fund, David Iben is follo
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released new guidance letting investment funds and advisors use social media to promote client reviews. The guidance seeks to assist investment managers in developing compliance policies and procedures reasonably
Featuring : Schwager sums up key lessons of Market Wizards series, starts global search for ‘undiscovered traders'.In this Opalesque.TV video interview, we interview bestselling author Jack Schwager on his most recent book, "The Little Book of Market Wizards: Lessons from the Greatest Traders.” In the book, Jack summarizes the key lessons from...» Watch the video
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Near Term Trend: NegativeFriday's Close: 3,446.85 (- 40.11 )UPDATE: Just over five weeks ago, the market posted a new high. We stated at that time, "No significant interruption is viable unless a daily close below 3.640.00 is posted". We noted three weeks ago, "The Index settled below 3,640.00". Prior to last week, we followed with, "Market remains vulnerable below the trend line". At this juncture, it remains vulnerable, and has built quite a bit of overhead.
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