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Opalesque Roundup: The bond market calls Bessent's bluff as regulators arrive at Situational Awareness: Hedge fund news
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Week ending 28 August 2026

A week in which two stories converged on the same theme: what happens when confidence runs ahead of capacity. The US Treasury discovered that talking to the bond market is not the same as controlling it, and the SEC arrived at the wreckage of the year's most spectacular hedge fund blow-up. Underneath both, the July performance data finally landed, and it told a more interesting story than the headlines did.

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EXCLUSIVE SEC strips 38 phantom advisers from its own database after filing fraud

28 August 2026

The SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy has warned that fraudsters are exploiting a structural quirk of the US adviser registration system, filing paperwork that places fictitious firms inside the regulator's own public database and then citing that listing as proof of legitimacy. Thirty-eight entries have now been removed. For allocators who treat a database hit as a first-pass diligence check, the implications are uncomfortable.

EXCLUSIVE "It's like the Wild West": Why Apex Group built a family-to-family co-investment netw......................

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