Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Roundtable: Hedge fund managers see increase in special situations funds, real estate-based private equity funds [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Ashley Gunning, a partner at investment funds group Walkers Global said that one of the trends he expects to continue this year is the increase in special situations funds where specialist man

• Commodity, equity hedge funds post strong returns in February [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Commodity and equity hedge funds lead strong performances in February as the commodity, equity and fixed income markets recovered from January’s volatility despite continued turbulence in emerging markets, said data provider

• Opalesque Exclusive: SEC allows some M&A brokers to operate without SEC registration (Part 1) [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: There may be a glimmer of hope for investment firms when it comes to new financial regulations. In February, the SEC released a significant no-action letter f

• Opalesque Exclusive: Big institutional investors account for 80% of emerging market bonds: hedge fund news, week 11 [more]

  In the week ending 07 March, 2014, the IMF said big institutional investors account for 80% of the $500bn that plowed into emerging market sovereign debt in the last few years; hedge funds

• The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +1.9% in February, bringing year to date performance to +1.45% [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +1.9% in February, bringing year to date performance to +1.45%. 11 Lyxor Strategy Indices out of 12 ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Special Situations Index (+3.48%), the Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+3.4%) and the L

• Online marketing platform revolutionises alternatives fundraising [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Latest figures from Preqin Investor Network reveal the extent to which the dynamics of fundraising have evolved in the current marketplace. Preqin’s latest industry analysis reveals 51% of institutional investors are now actively seeking out investments through proactiv

• White paper finds endowments' allocation to hedge funds relatively stable but role has changed [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - In its just-released white paper, "Endowment Interest and Allocation to Hedge Funds/Funds of Funds," Infovest21 examines endowments' use of hedge funds from both a qualitative and quantitative viewpoint. The white paper explores endowment chief investm

• Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index bounces back 1.93% in February (1.43% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - The Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index ended the month of February up +1.93%. Both bond and equity markets were up in February 2014 with the MSCI World Index up 5.21% and the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index up 0.53%. Hedge Fund Strategy Highlights &middo

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: Not so easy to replicate activist hedge funds and achieve similar performance [more]

  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

More Exclusives

• 07. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: As hedge funds compete for marketing and communications talent deals shift [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Hedge funds have had to do a lot of maneuvering in recent years to keep up with new regulations, ever changing financial markets and investor demands. Now as the industry matures and good talent, and indeed good investments are harder to find funds are taking s

• 07. Mar. | Old Park’s Maestro strategy returns +2.08% (+3.16% YTD) [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: London-based Old Park Capital’s Maestro Managed Futures Strategy returned +1.08% in January and +2.08% in February (+3.16% YTD) as political uncertainties in emerging markets continue to create

• 06. Mar. | Emerging market long/short managers with low net exposure help investors to curb losses (Part 2) [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Emerging markets had a very turbulent start in 2014 as a result of the massive depreciation of the Argentinian Peso (-22%) and Turkish Lira (-9%), said Asian hedge fund specialists GFIA. Entering 2014, Russian and B

• 06. Mar. | Opalesque TV: Securitisations expert finds hidden value in European RMBS market [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: According to Judith Sabbah-Sciamma, a securitisations expert, the RMBS market in Europe offers some real opportunities. Judith Sabbah-Sciamma is CEO, CIO and Portfolio Manager of London-based WyeTree Asset

• 06. Mar. | Federal regulatory agencies issue final Dodd-Frank Act stress test guidance [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Three federal bank regulatory agencies issued final guidance describing supervisory expectations for stress tests conducted by financial companies with total consolidated assets between $10b and $50bn. In a

• 05. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Lessons from Baupost and Buffet - what the 2014 letters have to say [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The latest round of investor letters from some of the biggest names in investing are out. The most highly anticipated of these letters is Buffet's which had a lot to say about th

• 04. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management acquires Fintan Partners LLC [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management (CFAM), a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P is acquiring California-based Fintan Partners, LLC, a fixed income absolute return fund of hedge funds. Fintan is led by founder Alexander Klikoff and will become part of CFAM.

• 04. Mar. | Asian fund managers end January with low net exposures (Part 1) [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Asian hedge fund specialists GFIA said Asian fund managers ended January with low net exposures, with selective net short exposures in countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia. GFIA founder Peter Dougla

• 04. Mar. | Emerging market-focused hedge funds suffer sharp losses [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: Emerging market-focused hedge funds suffered sharp losses at the start of 2014 as the HFRI Emerging Markets (Total) Index declined by 2.5% in January on weakness in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Comparatively, the index gained 7.1% in the final four month

• 04. Mar. | Majority of asset managers rely on secondary market intelligence [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: A new study by global analytics firm Cerulli Associates found that 93% of asset managers rely heavily on secondary market intelligence or so-called packaged research solutions. "Secondary research is already compiled and synthesized, usually in a report doc

• 03. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge funds down in January, still outperform - Citi Prime Finance [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: New hedge fund data from Citi Prime Finance shows that hedge funds were down slightly through January but still outperformed the index. January volatility from weakness in emerging markets and US economic data contributed to the drag on performance. Composite he

• 03. Mar. | Salus Alpha Special Situation Fund delivers strong returns [more]

  Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia: The Salus Alpha RN Special Situations fund delivered positive returns during the month of January generating +1.90% in returns and outperforming major peers by a positive margin

• 03. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge funds saw a resurgence in inflows in 2013: hedge fund news, week 10 [more]

  In the week ending 28 January, 2014, Preqin said hedge funds reported a resurgence in asset inflows from family offices and wealth managers in 2013; Forbes released the 25 highest-earning hedge fund managers and traders in 2013 who also made the most gains; hedge funds redemption climbed 3.3

• 28. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Changes ahead for REITs, dark pools, open-ended fund structures in Hong Kong [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Hong Kong's financial regulator the SFC is nearing the end of it's one-month consultation period on proposals to amend the Code on Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT Code) to introduce more flexibility in the investment scope of real estate investment t

More Other Voices

• 24. Feb. 2014 | Other Voices: The real impact of the JOBS Act [more]

  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

• 21. Feb. 2014 | Other Voices: CTA/CPO capital requirements; more harm than good? [more]

  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

• 20. Jan. 2014 | Other Voices: A practitioner’s scorecard to hedge fund replication [more]

  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.

• 31. Dec. 2013 | Other Voices: Cayman regulator agrees to database providing director transparency [more]

  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

• 07. Nov. 2013 | Other Voices: Why fee reduction is the purest form of alpha [more]

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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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NYMEX - CRUDE OIL (April) - Daily

Near Term Trend: Positive
Friday's Close: $102.76 (+ $ .36 cents)
UPDATE: We have consistently gone with the theme of whatever happens in Equities ultimately pulls the price of Crude with it. Regardless, last week we stated, I would not chase the long side at this juncture; as it is clearly overbought. We sold the April contract last week at on Monday's open at $102.29 and placed a stop at $103.45. Monday's price high and the high for the entire week was $103.45. We were a little too acute for our own good, as we were stopped out for a loss of $1.17. At this juncture, the price consolidation spans 8 days within the Bull Flag (see chart). Odds favor a break higher, but a daily close below $101.20 would negate the near term bulls.