Today's Exclusives

• Investors, asset managers need 'collaborative partnership' for transparency in alternative assets [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: A white paper released by wealth management provider Northern Trust calls for a "collaborative partnership between the buy and sell sides" to develop industry standards, and says a "more nuanced conversation a

• Opalesque Exclusive: New India hedge fund focuses on consumer names [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: A newly-launched India focused fund has placed itself in a sweet spot by applying a strategies that are rare in that particular market, namely, factor-based sys

• Steady HFRI gains drive industry assets to record [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Steady performance and investor inflows through 3Q17 increased total hedge fund capital to a 5th consecutive record quarterly level, as global economic growth prospects improved despite continued elevated geopolitical risks. Total hedge fund industry capital rose to a rec

• SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator: October notifications 2.69% [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for October 2017 measured 2.69%, down from 3.72% in September. "SS&C GlobeOp's Forward Redemption Indicator of 2.69% for October, 2017 reflects improved levels of redemption notices as compared to the 3.40% reporte

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: Why Most AI Projects Fail [more]

  By Ben Taylor, Chief Data Officer at ZIFF, Inc. Everyone has AI on their 2017/2018 roadmap these days. Bottom-tier innovation verticals like HR, multi-level marketing, entertainment, fashion, medical, supply chain (anyone else we should throw under the bus?) are even starting to talk about it.

More Exclusives

• 19. Oct. | Opalesque Roundtable: Risk mitigating strategies also have to be risk managed [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Risk mitigating strategies have to be risk managed because of the difficulty in quantifying the efficacy of those risk mitigating strategies, stated Fabien Pavlowsky, director - Global Macro & CTA Strategies at Lyxor Asset

• 18. Oct. | Opalesque Roundtable: Hedge fund of funds FRM attracted to emerging markets, fixed income relative value, and quant strategies [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Global alternative investment specialist Man FRM, a unit of Man Group, is currently very interested in three broad themes, namely emerging markets, fixed income relative value, and quant strategies, said Osvaldo Ca

• 17. Oct. | Opalesque Exclusive: Thornburg eyes healthcare for equity long/short strategy [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Despite a solid year for hedge fund performance, many investors are still looking at the liquid alternatives space to get similar equities strategies at a lower fee. Earlier this year, Thornburg decided to go with the trend and convert its Long/Short Equity Fund

• 16. Oct. | Opalesque Roundup: Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies are the Internet in the 1990s: hedge fund news, week 42 [more]

  In the week ending 13 October, 2017, in FinTech, cryptocurrency hedge fund cofounder Matthew Goetz claimed that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are like the I

• 09. Oct. | Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds seen as main contributors to Initial Coin Offerings and critized for flipping: hedge fund news, week 41 [more]

  In the week ending 06 October, 2017, in 153 FinTech Initial Coin Offerings, hedge funds are seen as main contributors to these ICOs with Blockchain named as the top hedge

• 02. Oct. | Opalesque Exclusive: MBS holds on in September [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: September was poised to be a fraught month for the MBS market. Banks and commercial mortgage underwriters started the month on pace for the biggest month of new issuance all year. MBS market watchers were also worried about how markets might react if the Fed

• 02. Oct. | Opalesque Exclusive: The end of good jobs in America [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: This week, President Trump released the outline of his tax plan, a proposal many on Wall Street were anticipating. To hear business tell it, America might as well be France. Shackled under the yoke of regulation and taxes it's a wonder America has any econom

• 02. Oct. | Opalesque Roundup: Old guard keeps closing their hedge funds as new ones step in: hedge fund news, week 40 [more]

  In the week ending 29 September, 2017, Steve Cohen has sent investors documents for the upcoming launch of his new hedge fund, Stamford Harbor Capital; Mike Novogratz is starting a $500 million hedge fund to invest in cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings and related companies; Optima Fund

• 25. Sep. | Opalesque Exclusive: US investment firms must have tailored cybersecurity policies and procedures in place [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Cyber attacks are on the increase. One of the last victims was Equifax, a US credit scoring agency. As a result of its insufficient cybersecurity program, the agency was slapped with state and federal investigations, private lawsuits and a summons for chief e

• 25. Sep. | Opalesque Roundup: Ray Dalio not a believer in cryptocurrencies: hedge fund news, week 39 [more]

  In the week ending 22 September, 2017, in FinTech, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said he is not a believer in cryptocurrencies and called bitcoin a bubble. Specifically, h

• 22. Sep. | Opalesque Exclusive: Neuberger Berman acquires Breton Hill Capital [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: $271 billion asset manager Neuberger Berman has acquired $2B Toronto-based, Breton Hill Capital. Breton Hill runs a quantitative strategy based on equities research. The firm focuses on alternative risk premia and multi-factor solutions spanning equities, cu

• 20. Sep. | Opalesque Exclusive: Peak Soil Indexes aims to financialize farmland [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Peak Soil Indexes (PSI), an indexing boutique run by Paul Kanitra out of Greensboro, GA, has already established several core farmland indexes as benchmarks in the industry, and says it wants to "de

• 18. Sep. | Managed account 3D Capital is up nearly 70% of the time the S&P 500 is down [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Separately managed account 3D Capital Management programs utilize a global macro, systematic investment approach to trade exclusively in the E-mini S&P 500 futures contract. The programs have achieved pro

• 18. Sep. | Opalesque Roundup: Crypto hedge funds aim to crack $1.2bn in assets: hedge fund news, week 38 [more]

  In the week ending 15 September, 2017, in FinTech, hedge funds are hacking blockchains to guide them in their cryptocurrency investments. There are now more t

More Other Voices

• 04. Oct. 2017 | Other Voices: Is this the time to consider Reinsurance for a diversified hedge fund portfolio? [more]

  Matthias Knab, Opalesque: From Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA: Most institutional investors understand the uncorrelated, diversification benefits of property catastrophe reinsurance. Many have been waiting on the sidelines for a large event to happen that would drive up pricing before allocating t

• 02. Oct. 2017 | Other Voices: What should fund COOs worry about? [more]

  By Doug Schwenk, Founder & CEO, Advise Technologies Given the dramatic impending changes in regulatory reporting requirements for asset management firms, their chief operating officers, administrators and compliance officials have pretty "full plates" these days. There is no shortage of reporti

• 20. Sep. 2017 | Other Voices: Does Artificial Intelligence start wars? Thoughts on Elon Musk [more]

  By Lars Jaeger: The billionaire and acclaimed tech visionary Elon Musk just expressed another dire warning about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI). In a Twitter message (where else, we are to ask today) a few days ago he warned that this technology represents a greater risk to world p

• 06. Sep. 2017 | Other Voices: Are there still opportunities in structured credit hedge fund strategies? [more]

  By Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA, Managing Partner Agecroft Partners, LLC Hedge fund managers focused on structured credit strategies can be simplistically divided into two categories: beta managers or alpha generators. Many investors believe the beta opportunity born out of the financial crisis

• 05. Sep. 2017 | Other Voices: Are CTAs a crowded trade? [more]

  Authored by Dr. Tillmann Sachs, CIO and Head of Research at London-based J8 Capital Management. Recently, an investor asked if investing in CTAs was investing in a crowded trade. We

• 14. Aug. 2017 | Other Voices: Crisis risk offset; about time? [more]

  This article was authored by Russell Barlow, global head of hedge fund solutions at London-based Aberdeen Asset Management. Like the ubiquitous force of gravity, when financial markets rise they must fall. The quest

• 28. Jul. 2017 | Other Voices: ICO hell is here (for U.S. investors) [more]

  Chris Kitze Technology Innovator and Investor ICO's surpassed VC funding for blockchain companies in the first half of 2017. Tezos raised $232m in two weeks and Bancor pocketed $153m in just three hours. New coin listings on exchanges have generated eye-popping returns for early investor

• 27. Jul. 2017 | Other Voices: Activist's investment in Nestle: Upcoming depreciation of major world currencies [more]

  By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Investment Research; author of Story Investing. Alex Gavrish discusses the possible story behind an activist inves

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COMEX - COPPER – (Futures – Dec.) – Monthly

Near Term Trend: Neutral

As of 10/13/17 close: 3.1335

UPDATE: Last week, I suggested shorting copper at 3.15 with stops on a close above 3.17 and with a target of 1.76.

Copper continued higher this week as expected. It’s getting closer to the projected upside target of 3.155 where I recommended shorts should be tried again.

I would still look to short copper at 3.15 and would honor stops on a close above 3.17 with a target of 2.51.