Today's Exclusives

• 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

• 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

• Eiffel Credit Opportunities launches on Sciens Managed Account platform [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Sciens Alternative Investments, part of the Sciens Capital Management Group and provider of single- and multi-strategy funds of hedge funds and managed account services, today announces that

• Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index rises +0.85% in November (+8.27% YTD) [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - Hedge fund strategy highlights: Hedge Funds posted another positive month in November with the Greenwich Global Hedge Fund Index up 0.85%. Equity markets as measured by the MSCI World Index were up 1.37% but the Barclay Aggregate Bond Index

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

• 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

• 29. Nov. | Opalesque Exclusive: Monte Capital’s long/short equity fund up 12% YTD thanks to active management of options portfolio [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:Monte Capital’s Theta Fund, a long/short equity fund with derivative protection, is up 12.11% YTD after returning 0.57% in October. The fund, which is listed on Opalesque’s

• 28. Nov. | Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge funds see seventh consecutive month of performance gains [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York:October accounted for the seventh consecutive month of performance gains according to the latest data from Citi Prime Finance. According to eVestment, industry assets rose for October 2013 gaining +$59.7bn. Asset growth was attributed mostly from performance gain

• 28. Nov. | Opalesque Roundtable: Investors want alpha to go with uncorrelated volatility [more]

  Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London:The Opalesque 2013 Chicago Roundtable, sponsored by FfastFill, Eurex

• 27. Nov. | Opalesque Roundtable: Chicago is where innovation happens [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva:Chicago is different from other financial centres, it was said during the recent Opalesque Chicago Roundtable. For a start, in Chicago, the birthplace of the futures market, tends to

• 25. Nov. | Opalesque Exclusive: CAIA celebrates growth, plans new chapters in Texas, Ireland, Middle East and Australia [more]

  Sophie Grenier-van Straelen, Asterias Ltd for Opalesque CAIA, the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association, presented Friday evening its fourth annual leadership awards. 130 selected guests were invited to join CAIA at the ballroom of the Mandarin Hyde Park Hotel in Knightsbridge

• 25. Nov. | Opalesque Exclusive: Emerging manager Strategis launches structured products linked to market neutral strategy [more]

  Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London for New Managers:Investment manager Strategis Capital Management is introducing their Global Equity Market Neutral strategy next month and BNP Paribas is set to launch structured products l

• 25. Nov. | Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge fund managers differ on possible equity market bubble – Hedge fund news, week 47 [more]

  In the week ending 22nd November, 2013, it was reported that with the Dow Jones industrial average around 16,000, hedge fund managers that focus on betting against stocks see the opportunity to make money on what they see as

• 22. Nov. | Opalesque Exclusive: New real estate long/short fund up 8.5% YTD by capitalising on mis-priced securities [more]

  Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: Midwest Advisors, a new asset manager located in St. Louis, Missouri, was founded by Rick Murray, an ex-manager at Hovde Capital Advisors LLC, who wanted to capitalize on 15 y

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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