Today's Exclusives

• Deloitte: ESG-mandated assets on pace to account for 50% of all professionally managed assets by 2025 [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: The US has often lagged behind other jurisdictions in terms of its appetite for ESG investments, but that may be changing. A new report from Deloitte suggests that the number of ESG-mandated assets in the United States could grow almost three times as fast as no

• Are all ESG Indexes as green as you want them to be? [more]

  From Beyond Investing: When Laurence Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, with nearly US$7 trillion under management, vows to put sustainability at the core of the firm's new investment approach, markets and investors sit up and liste

• Morgan Stanley buys E-Trade for $13bn in an all-stock deal [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: American multinational investment bank and financial services company Morgan Stanley is buying online broker E*Trade Financial Corp. in a $13 billion deal that will reshape the storied investment bank. Under the terms of the agreement, E*Trade stockholders will rece

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: Pandemic response: Coronavirus & business continuity planning [more]

  By Eze Castle Integration: With the recent outbreak of coronavirus, businesses and alternative investment firms are enacting pandemic response plans in an effort to keep their day-to-day operations running smoothly and without major disruptions due to staffing issues. According to the World Health O

More Other Voices

• 12. Feb. 2020 | Other Voices: Evolution of shrinking hedge fund fees - what do investors and managers need to know? [more]

  By Don Steinbrugge, Founder and CEO, Agecroft Partners (DonSteinbrugge@agecroftpartners.com): Hedge funds fees remain under extreme pressure across the industry. This strong trend is driven by declining return expectations from investors, inc

• 11. Feb. 2020 | Other Voices: Proposed revisions to the Volcker rule [more]

  By: Lawrence Berkovich, John Hwang, Chris Jackson, Sheena Paul, Derek Poon, Nicholas Robinson, Bill Satchell, Ari Yannakogeorgos, Allen & Overy LLP On January 30, 2019, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller

• 31. Jan. 2020 | Other Voices: OCIE publishes its 2020 examination priorities [more]

  By: Margaret (Peggy) Blake, Eric Love, Laura Pruitt, David Woodcock, Jones Day The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations issued its 2020 examination priorities. The Exam Priorities set forth a nonexhaustive list of key areas where OCIE i

• 23. Jan. 2020 | Other Voices: SFC issues guidance to private equity firms and family offices on licensing issues [more]

  By: Anne-Marie Godfrey, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP In recent years, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has increasingly focused on private equity funds' obligation to be licensed under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO). In February 2019, the SFC's Licensing Ha

• 10. Jan. 2020 | Other Voices: PFIC: what U.S. investment funds should be particularly aware of and newly proposed regulations [more]

  By: Kris Hatch, Idan Netser, Fenwick & West LLP U.S.-based venture capital and other funds that invest in foreign companies must be careful to avoid the passive foreign investment company (PFIC) rules, which could substantially increase the tax owed on exit for U.S. taxpaying investors. U.S. per

• 27. Dec. 2019 | Other Voices: Final opportunity zone treasury regulations released [more]

  By: Russell Stein, Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP On Thursday, December 19th, the U.S. Department of Treasury released the long-awaited final Opportunity Zone Treasury Regulations. The Final Regulations and explanatory materials that span 544 pages, are quite extensive and give some needed clarity in

• 11. Dec. 2019 | Other Voices: Missing the mark: CFA hedge fund performance standards [more]

  By Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA - CEO, Agecroft Partners: The CFA Institute has released and circulated the final version of its guidelines to improve performance standards in the hedge fund industry. They will go into effect on January 1, 2020. We strongly support the effort to create and implement p

• 26. Nov. 2019 | Other Voices: For alternative asset managers, the time for RPA is now [more]

  By: Martin Boyd, president of Capital Market Solutions for FIS Alternative asset managers are getting serious about embracing technology. Robotic process automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence - innovations I collectively refer to as emerging technology are having a moment in

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GOLD FUTURES (March - @GC) – Daily

Currently: Short Looking to: Cover @ 1,536.60

As of 2/13/20 as of 6:50pm EST: 1,580.45

LAST WEEK: We suggested selling longs / getting short near 1,576.91 with stops > 1,587.06 and with a
target of 1,536.60.

UPDATE: Gold futures are still seeing safe-haven buying. Gold may continue up to 1,587 and then we are
looking for a drop to either 1,530 or 1,510.

Sell longs / get short near 1,587.06 with stops honored on a daily close above 1,588 and with a target for covering at 1,530. We would get long at 1,510 with stops honored on a close < 1,508 and with an upside target of 1,641.