Today's Exclusives

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 28. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Pascal Guessas' CTA firm appoints Head of Operations [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Mr. Guessas, a commodity trading advisor, has recently appointed Peter Halmshaw as Head of Operations.

• 28. Feb. | Opalesque Exclusive: Finalists for the Global Emerging Manager Awards are announced [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: S&P Capital IQ and New Legacy Group

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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Near Term Trend: Positive
Friday's Close: 1859.45 (+ 4.78)
UPDATE: Two weeks ago, based on our comments- we had this market pegged; "We did not believe the Index would settle above the historical highs (1851.00), initially, for the first week, but it would most likely back and fill (retrace), first, before it had the reach to keep up this current pace". That scenario played out perfectly and the result was a breakout to new historical highs this week. Prior to last week; we followed with; "For now, it appears it would take little strength to break- out to the upside (above our red resistance line). However, the M.A. (blue) line is signaling caution – we could sell off again, and that is the way I am leaning". The last statement hurt us; I believed the negative slope of the M.A. Line was signaling trouble. This market has potential to keep going toward 1886.00. Next couple of days are critical – don’t want to see a Bull Trap.