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Opalesque Exclusive: Resonanz Capital on building portfolios from a growing strategy universe

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:03:59 +0000

Matthias Knab, Opalesque: With Jazz managing over EUR390 million, Vincent Weber discusses the judgment behind portfolio construction, what he underestimated about AI, and when earning risk premia calls for buying protection. Trading strategies are coming to market faster. Vincent Weber sees the change across the quantitative investment strategy (QIS) providers Resonanz Capital works with, and it ...
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Opalesque Exclusive: Tabor Asset Management on the consumer sector's lost year

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 03:27:30 +0000

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: When a manager is down on the year, the usual move is to go quiet until the number improves. Tabor Asset Management is doing the opposite...
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Picks and shovels pay off: NewSpace Capital's Fund I delivers early DPI as space investing goes mainstream

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:56:20 +0000

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: When Opalesque first spoke with Bogdan Gogulan, CEO and Managing Partner of NewSpace Capital, in 2023, he described the sector as being at "the beginning of a space technology super cycle." Three years on, the macro backdrop has moved decisively in his favour, Fund I is delivering, and the firm is raising its second fund. "A lot of things ...
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Other Voices: The case for global small-cap equities

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:08:38 +0000

By Don Steinbrugge, founder and CEO at Agecroft Partners, a global hedge fund consulting and marketing firm. Global small-cap equities represent one of the most persistently overlooked corners of the public markets, and the current environment presents an unusually compelling entry point for allocators willing to look past the mega-cap names that dominate most portfolios. The case rests on three...
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September split: Macro and CTAs rally while rate-sensitive hedge fund strategies decline

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:57:53 +0000

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Hedge funds posted mixed performance in September. Gains in Macro and CTA strategies were offset by losses elsewhere, as interest rates spiked to an unprecedented degree and global bond markets came under pressure for the second consecutive month...
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Opalesque Exclusive: Hedge fund gross assets tripled to $13tn since 2013, IMF says, as it calls for better data and targeted tools

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:54:20 +0000

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Hedge funds make markets work better in normal times, but their leverage, crowded positions and exposure to redemptions can turn them into amplifiers of stress when conditions deteriorate. That is the conclusion of a new IMF blog by Andrea Deghi, Taneli Makinen, Mahvash S...
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"It bubbles, but it is not a bubble": Helmut Kohl on where family offices should invest in AI

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:50:58 +0000

Matthias Knab, Opalesque: Helmut Kohl has lived through a few technology cycles. After more than 30 years in management positions at telecommunications companies, he now runs Helmut Kohl Management, a family office that invests in digital infrastructure, and sits on advisory and supervisory boards in the sector...
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Opalesque Exclusive: The banks trade is not over: Edward Lam on holding a differentiated book through AI rotation

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:21:10 +0000

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Eight months after delivering 57% without benefiting from AI, Edward Lam is flat for the year - and heading into what he believes is a materially better setup, with a quarter still to run. In February we published a long conversation with Edward Lam, portfolio manager of the S.R. Ocellus Fund at Sloane Robinson, under the title "The Alpha Hunter&...
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10 things you didn't know about blockchain, from Legends4Legends 2026

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:26:57 +0000

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers: Bitcoin has gone nowhere this year, yet the businesses built on blockchain rails keep compounding. That gap between token prices and real-world progress ran through the 2026 edition of Legends4Legends, held on October 1 at the EYE Filmmuseum on Amsterdam's IJ waterfront under the theme "From speculation to institutional adoption: how blockcha...
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Opalesque Roundup: Leverage, the bond sell-off and a USD 30bn vote for multi-managers: hedge fund news

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:18:31 +0000

A disorderly global bond sell-off sorted the hedge fund industry into winners and losers this week. Trend followers and the largest multi-managers held their ground, while concentrated rates bets were punished...
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