Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Bearish views on Asian markets in 2014 lead hedge fund to maximum net short [more]

  Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London:Stewart Paterson, is currently running a significant net short at the maximum permissible level of minus 20% in Tiburon Taurus, the firm’s Asian hedge fund, as he bearishly declares: "There is a high likelihoo

• Opalesque Exclusive: Misconceptions about hedge fund replication, Part 1 [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:Hedge fund replication is the collective name given to a number of different methods that attempt to replicate hedge fund returns. With the belief that alpha is a zero-sum gain, more

• SEC brings charges against hedge fund, advisors, Merrill Lynch in latest round of investigations [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a rash of new charges today against a London-based hedge fund, a Charlotte, N.C.-based investment advisory firm, and Merrill Lynch over misleading investors. GLG Partners L.P. and its former holding company

• UCITS HFS Index experiences slow down, up 0.27% in November (3% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - The UCITS HFS Index posts its third positive monthly result in a row in November 2013 (0.27%). The broad index started negatively into the month with losses of -0.14% after the first full week of trading. Things turned around in week two though with gains of 0.16%. Althou

Today's Other Voices

• 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

More Exclusives

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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%

• 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

• 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

More Other Voices

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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CBT - U.S. TEN YEAR NOTE (Dec) – Daily

Near Term Trend: Negative
Monday's Close: 125'220 (+ 3.5) Yield: 2.85%
UPDATE: Weeks ago we stated, "A close below 126’10,
sell outright". On December 2 the market settled at 126’05, and that was the impetus to go short. Following the initiation of the short position, the December contract fell to 125'04. At this juncture place a buy stop against the short at 126'020 (daily close only).