Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Gender diverse private equity investment committees significantly outperform all-male teams, study shows [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: New research on private equity shows that having gender diverse investment committees is not only a blindingly obvious thing we need to do in 2019, it's also good for business. The report, entitled, "Impact of Gender Diversity on Performance of Private Equit

• Preqin sees huge opportunities for Japanese private equity market [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Optimism permeates Japanese private equity landscape, with increased investor interest and an incremental flow of government funding allowing the asset class to gain considerable traction. In Q1 2019, 13 Japan-based private equity funds secured an aggregate JPY 221

• Creandum raises $302m venture fund focusing on early-stage opportunities across Europe [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: European early-stage venture capital investor Creandum announced the successful first and final close of Creandum V, a EUR265m ($302m) early-stage venture fund focused on high-potential opportunities across Europe. "Following strong demand from existing and new inv

• Opalesque Roundup: Investors redeem $46.4bn from hedge funds in Q1 2019: hedge fund news, week 23 [more]

  In the week ending June 21st 2019, the June 2019 Eurekahedge report said that the global hedge fund industry AUM has grown by $0.5bn as of May 2019 year-to-date. Final Q1 2019 net outflows fi

• Yale SOM launches new asset management program [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - The Yale School of Management will launch a new degree program in asset management that will give students just starting their careers rich exposure to the application of data science and quantitative techniques to investment decisions. Taught by leading Yale SOM faculty,

• Notz Stucki intent on playing an active role in consolidation [more]

  Opalesque Industry Update - 55 years after its foundation, the Geneva-based asset management firm NOTZ STUCKI has bolstered its governance with an expanded and rejuvenated Executive Committee. Drawing on its acknowledged investment expertise and its diversification into three complementary act

Today's Other Voices

• Other voices: Impact of the evolving relationship between investors and managers on fund structuring [more]

  By: Justin Savage, Ogier A combination of diminished returns across the hedge fund industry amid challenging market conditions for generating alpha and a continued and increased focus on performance has given rise to a shift away from more traditional hedge fund products to the more attractive r

More Other Voices

• 30. May. 2019 | Other Voices: ICOs and digital assets: a new and optional legal regime in France [more]

  By: Philippe Goutay, Linda Hesse, Jones Day The Situation: ICOs and digital assets have become a new phenomenon that has impacted many aspects of our modern economies and created an alternative way of financing for start-ups or small and medium-sized enterprises. The Result: T

• 22. May. 2019 | Other Voices: Show me the data: investors demand better ESG disclosures [more]

  By Jessie M. Gabriel and Lauren T. Attard of BakerHostetler Asset managers are always looking for a valuation edge. But even when key factors are identified, the data may not be available. This is particularly true with environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. No one will dispute their

• 17. May. 2019 | Other Voices: A round up of key trends in health care private equity investments [more]

  By: Foley & Lardner This conference season, private equity (PE) investors and provider compared notes on the current state of the markets, trends, opportunities and challenges. Below is a summary of key trends that have been discussed. A recent Health Care Private Equity Panel during the Yo

• 24. Apr. 2019 | Other Voices: Shareholder activism trends in the 2019 proxy season [more]

  By: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, In 2018, robust U.S. and global M&A activity substantially mitigated the downside risk for activist investors. With political uncertainty ahead of the 2020 presidential election, unsettled questions on trade and tariffs, and the late 2018 market correcti

• 11. Apr. 2019 | Other Voices: Private equity and activism [more]

  By Amadeus Moeser, Sidley Austin LLP The relationship between private equity funds and activist hedge funds has always been double-edged. While in the past, engagements of activists often led to the sale of a target company or less profitable operations of a company to private equity funds, man

• 10. Apr. 2019 | Other Voices: Game changing fund of fund reforms ahead [more]

  by Carlton Fields On December 19, 2018, the SEC proposed rescinding most so-called fund of funds (FoF) exemptive orders and Rule 12d1-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Act) and replacing them with new Rule 12d1-4.1 Some of these reforms may have significant consequences for both fu

• 12. Mar. 2019 | Other Voices: Hong Kong's SFC puts hedge funds under the microscope with complexity rule [more]

  By: Rory Gallaher, Deacons Under the revised Code of Conduct for Persons Licensed by or Registered with the Securities and Futures Commission, which is scheduled to come into effect on 6 April 2019, intermediaries must determine whether a product they are selling is a complex product. If a prod

• 26. Feb. 2019 | Other Voices: Three investor bugbears fund managers could easily avoid [more]

  By: Karen Fountain, Brodies Here are three "unforced errors" which could be easily avoided. At every industry conference I have attended there has been an investor panel session where deeply felt frustrations have been vented. There is, of course, an inevitable commercial tension b

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ISHARES EUROPE ETF (IEV) – Daily

Currently: Short Looking to: Cover at $42.19

As of 6/21/19 close: $43.91

LAST WEEK: We suggested covering shorts @ 42.19 and getting long down at $41.65 with stops below $41.25 and with a target of $49.15.

UPDATE: The European ETF (IEV) still not breaking out bullishly despite good short-term action. We would be covering shorts at $42.19 and trying to get long down at $41.65 with stops honored on a close below $41.25. The upside target for taking profits on longs will be $49.15.