Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Roundtable: Seeders embrace capacity constrained strategies [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: Active management has always had a problem with diminishing returns at scale. Now one seed funding platform is actually telling managers that 'assets are the e

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: GDPR and asset management [more]

  By: Bruno Fiastre, executive vice president Taliance The arrival of warm weather in the Northern Hemisphere this year will bring with it another change: the General Data Protection regime will come into force. The legislation, which can impact any company with information about citizens of the E

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• 17. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: CreativeCap Advisors launches emerging managers incubator [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: Chicago-based CreativeCap Advisors, a business advisory firm for private funds, is launching a new alternatives incubator designed to help emerging hedge, private

• 17. Apr. | Emerging markets-focused hedge funds lead performance in March as industry falters [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Only hedge funds with a focus on emerging markets attained positive returns in March and were up 0.10% during the month, according to Preqin's latest Hedge Fund Performance update. The positive result builds on a stro

• 16. Apr. | Opalesque Roundtable: Investment platforms of the future will disrupt financial services [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Innovations coming via investment platforms will disrupt financial services, claimed Michael Syn, head of derivatives at the

• 16. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Paul Eckel's Emerging Manager launches Crypto Emerging Manager [more]

  Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Crypto Emerging Manager ("CEM") is one of the first registered capital raising firms in the investment industry to focus exclusively on raising capital for Cryptocurrency m

• 16. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Custom hedge fund portfolios gain traction with small to mid-size institutions [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: Large institutions have long been able to work with hedge fund managers to create their own customized portfolios, enabling them to tailor their allocations toward

• 16. Apr. | Opalesque Roundup: Hedge fund investors doubt artificial intelligence can be relied on for fundamental investing : hedge fund news, week 15. [more]

  In the week ending 13 March, 2018, participants at a recent Opalesque Roundtable in Connecticut explained how artificial intelligence and machine learning can offer meaningf

• 13. Apr. | Opalesque Roundtable: The treasury function of a long/short hedge fund now more important than ever [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The treasury function for any long/short fund has become increasingly more important since 2008 no matter the asset class, said Rick Doucette, CEO and CIO of Antecapio Investment Partners. But what is the treasury function of a hedge fund? Says Doucette: "The tr

• 12. Apr. | Opalesque Roundtable: Uses and limits of AI and machine learning in finance [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning offer potential solutions in speeding up the portfolio manager and analyst's perspective on what information is relevant in the marketplace and how that affects their thought process and how they should respond to it

• 11. Apr. | Opalesque Video: Coinweb to help businesses that want to use blockchain [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: The blockchain technology, which is almost impossible to hack, can and probably will change the way you run your business. The Economist lists

• 10. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Barnegat to close hedge fund to outside investors on weak opportunities [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Bob Treue's Barnegat Fund Management said it is closing its $666m fixed income relative value hedge fund to outside investors. "The negative side to gains in Fixed Income Arbitrage is that unless we find new opportunit

• 10. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Northern Trust partners with Hazeltree on cash management [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services has partnered with Hazeltree on a new cash optimization service. The service can help investment managers maintain cash reserves and generate alpha by investing excess cash. The service uses Hazeltree Optimizer a rules-base

• 09. Apr. | Opalesque TV: Pioneering electronics ecommerce firm launches ICO which ends April 15 [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: An innovative second-hand electronics ecommerce based in Hong Kong has started a token sale which ends on 15th April. It has already sold more than 288 million tokens. Galaxy eSolutions operat

• 09. Apr. | Opalesque Roundup: 83% of endowments and 66% of foundations now invest in hedge funds: hedge fund news, week 14 [more]

  In the week ending 06 April, 2018, institutional investors are now the largest allocators in hedge funds with more than $2tln invested in the space. 83% of U.S. en

• 04. Apr. | Opalesque Roundtable: Cybersecurity threats also hound regulators [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Cyrbersecurity threats are real and dangerous. When hackers developed the capability to breach a securities regulator's security, then they too can get to you. Heather Smith, head of the Investments Supervision and Securities Supervision Divisions at the

More Other Voices

• 23. Mar. 2018 | Other Voices: Hong Kong cracks down on cryptocurrency exchanges [more]

  by Graham Lim and David Law, Jones Day The Situation: Surging interest in digital tokens has caught the attention of regulators in Hong Kong. The Development: Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission recently introduced additional regulatory measures, and seven cryptocurrency excha

• 16. Mar. 2018 | Other Voices: The future of energy investment [more]

  By: Enda Fahy, Director of Alternatives, Fundrock The idea of using canaries in coal mines to detect noxious gases is credited to John Scott Haldane. He was known as "the father of oxygen therapy". His research on carbon monoxide led him to recommend using the birds, as they were more sensitive

• 28. Feb. 2018 | Other Voices: Crypto Predictions for 2018 [more]

  By: Daniel Israeli, Barnea 2017 was a significant year for the blockchain industry in general and for cryptocurrencies in particular. The price of bitcoin and other digital currencies rose, and ventures accumulated over $3 billion via initial coin offerings (ICOs). 2018 is expected to be an eq

• 06. Feb. 2018 | Other Voices: How hedge funds can reduce tail risk during a market sell-off [more]

  On Friday the Dow Jones Industrial average fell 665 points causing many investors to wonder if the 9 year bull market has come to an end. History has proven that most investors are terrible at predicting the direction of the market. To do so successfully requires two correct decisions: when to get o

• 31. Jan. 2018 | Other Voices: The Straight Flush Crash [more]

  AN ILLUSION OF SIMPLICITY, AN ENTANGLEMENT OF COMPLEXITY A white paper by Dr. George Sokoloff and Ted Parkhill Lately, there has been talk of so-called "elevated" markets. Equity markets, real estate markets and bond markets are indeed reaching new highs regularly. But how long will this last?

• 19. Dec. 2017 | Other Voices: Hedge Funds - tax issues and planning to consider before year-end [more]

  By: Philip Gross, Kleinberg Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen Year-end has always been a time for tax planning and we send our clients our year-end tax planning newsletter on an annual basis. Tax planning for this year-end, however, is even more important (and more complex and more uncertain) because of th

• 15. Dec. 2017 | Other voices: Proposed tax reform legislation: what managers, investors and advisors are discussing [more]

  By: Gerard O'Beirne, Eisner Amper As of the date of this article, both the House and Senate have voted on and approved separate versions of tax reform legislation. The process of reconciliation is now underway. Although tax planning decisions, both long term and short term, cannot be final

• 05. Dec. 2017 | Other Voices: Is now the time to invest in alternatives? [more]

  Walter Davis, Alternatives Investment Strategist Invesco I recently have been traveling around the country participating on a panel titled: "Alternatives: Time to Buy When Others Are Selling?" Spoiler alert - my answer to that question is a resounding "yes." There are two reasons why. First, loo

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Weekly US Jobless Claims Data Averages:

Last week’s claims #: 242,000

4-Week Average of Claims: 227,250

Prior Week’s 4-Week Average: 224,500

13-Week Average of Claims: 225,154

Prior Week’s 13-Week Average: 229,308

Comments: Weekly claims came in higher at 242,000 in Thursday’s number. That number lifted the 4-week average to 227,500. However, the 13-week avg dropped slightly once again. For the 4-week avg to rise next week, we would need to see the weekly number come in at or above 226,000.