Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Global Return Asset Management ends Q1 up 19% [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: New York-based Global Return Asset Management ended March up 1.4% extending its rebound and bringing year-to-date returns to 19.3%, net. The value investor said that it's moving back to cash as market conditions have moved outside of its parameters for inve

• Global hedge funds record net growth with $55bn performance gains and $32.3bn investor redemptions in first quarter [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The global hedge fund industry assets under management (AUM) has grown by $22.7bn as of March 2019, said the April 2019 Eurekahedge Report. Redemption pressure eases as quarter-on-quarter investor flows from the hedge funds industry dropped by 65.9%. Investors redee

• Barclay CTA Index gains 1.65% in March [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Managed futures remained in positive territory in March with a 1.65% return for the month according to the Barclay CTA Index. March's CTA fund performance brought managed futures back into the black for the year, with a 1.48% year-to-date return through the end of

• Diversity key to venture capital market buoyancy in Europe [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: In Europe, the diversity of venture capital (VC) investments across individual jurisdictions helped to maintain the robustness of the VC market despite local uncertainties like Brexit in the UK, said a research report. Overall VC capital investment reached $6.5bn

Today's Other Voices

• 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

More Other Voices

• 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

• 17. Jan. 2019 | Other Voices: Markets in a new key - A theory of meaning and market segmentation [more]

  By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Capital Ltd; author of "Story Investing". A recent article

• 11. Jan. 2019 | Other Voices: How the SEC's list of examination priorities will affect private fund advisors [more]

  By: Jones Day, LLP On December 20, 2018, the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released its 2019 Examination Priorities in which OCIE detailed key areas where OCIE currently intends to focus its resources in 2019. The Report cont

• 31. Dec. 2018 | Other Voices: Hedge fund marketing blurs the line on BDCs [more]

  by Dechert LLP: In December 2018, the SEC announced two enforcement actions involving business development companies (BDCs) - one against Fifth Street Management, LLC, the former external registered investment adviser to two BDCs, and the other against KCAP Financial, Inc., an internally managed BD

• 04. Dec. 2018 | Other Voices: How do we solve the public pension fund crisis in the US? Are hedge funds to blame? [more]

  By: Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA - CEO, Agecroft Partners An article recently published about the grossly underfunded Kentucky State Retirement System suggests that gambling on high fee hedge funds and private equity funds, and the use of placement agents, were primarily to blame. For many readers

• 13. Nov. 2018 | Other Voices: Alternative data could pose risks for fund managers [more]

  By: Joshua M Newville and Jeffrey Neuburger, Proskauer The WSJ recently published an article detailing how companies are monetizing smartphone location data by s

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