By Opalesque for New Managers: TrussEdge has published How to Launch a Hedge Fund, a white paper written with RFA, Opus Fund Services and Dechert. It aims to help emerging managers handle the practical, operational, technological and regulatory challenges of setting...

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Twenty-eight years ago, while much of the investment industry was focused on forecasting recessions, interest rates, market crashes and the next great investment theme, a small asset manager in San Francisco took a different approach....

Matthias Knab, Opalesque: Grizzly Research, the activist short seller, published a lengthy report on Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), the Vienna-listed group whose Russian subsidiary, AO Raiffeisenbank, is the largest Western bank still operating in Russia. The report alleges that the Russian unit has become a channel for sanctions circumvention while RBI tells investors it is wind...

Matthias Knab, Opalesque: Credit hedge funds do not usually publish studies of close to 80 pages on beer bottles, shampoo pouches and paper coffee cups. Chenavari Investment Managers, the London-based European alternative fixed income manager founded by Loic Fery in 2008, just did. Decarbonising the Packaging Industry, released on 8 September, is the fourth in...

Matthias Knab, Opalesque: Hedgeye Asset Management (HAM), a subsidiary of Hedgeye Risk Management, has launched the Hedgeye Hedged Bitcoin ETF (NYSE: HBIT), an actively managed fund aimed at investors who want bitcoin exposure without the full amplitude of the asset's price swings. The fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in U.S.-list...

Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: The headlines surrounding mutual funds in recent years have been mostly focused on solutions for moving away from them. Mutual fund managers are converting them to ETFs, plan sponsors are switching to CITs, and so on. But for many in...

Matthias Knab, Opalesque: SS&C GlobeOp's Forward Redemption Indicator for July 2026 measured 1.35%, down from 1.72% in June and one of the lowest monthly readings in the indicator's history, SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: SSNC) announced. Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SS&C Technologies, said the July reading was ...

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: On June 3, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a short and unsparing order. It denied Evan H. Katz's motion to vacate the settlement he agreed to in September 2024 over his role in distributing forged audit materials t...

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: The hedge fund industry has undergone significant consolidation in recent years, with capital increasingly concentrated among large multi-strategy platforms. Yet boutique managers - defined as firms with $200 million to $1 billion in assets u...

By Opalesque Geneva: Relying on service providers and their technology to do all the groundwork is becoming a reality. Fund managers can now do away with the petty annoyances of mis-filings, the hours spent sorting through messy data or analysing new deals. We recently discussed this with Jonathan Hinkley, New York-based executive VP at ...

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: How evolving fund structures, investor requirements and cross-asset innovation are reshaping the hedge fund value proposition (UBS Asset Management, The Red Thread). Hedge funds have been declared dead,...