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

Saturday, August 29, 2026

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.

This week's Opalesque Exclusives
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 network

26 August 2026

Apex Group launched The Inner Circle this month, an invitation-only network capped at 100 qualified family offices and selected institutional allocators. The proposition is deliberately spare for a private markets venture: direct family-to-family co-investment, without the intermediation layer that families have grown weary of paying for.

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