Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: DSC Meridian focuses on ESG with new Climate Action Fund [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: DSC Meridian Capital, a distressed and event-driven credit hedge fund led by ex-Paulson Head of Credit Research Sheru Chowdhry, has launched the Climate Action Fun

• Investcorp and Xponance team up to invest in diverse and woman-owned alts managers [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Xponance and Investcorp have entered into a strategic partnership to stake and seed diverse and woman-owned alternative asset managers. The partnership will focus on managers in the mid-market. Investcorp's Strategic Capital Group and Xponance Alts Solu

• Ares Management raises $1.7bn for distressed real estate investments [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The global alternative investment manager Ares Management Corp. closed Ares U.S. Real Estate Opportunity Fund III at $1.7 billion, exceeding its fundraising target. The publicly traded asset management firm with $197bn AUM said in a press release that this marks the

Today's Other Voices

• Other Voices: Private equity's new trend: selling to themselves [more]

  By: Andreas Hinsen, Loyens Loeff The decline in global M&A activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, combined with the ongoing lack of attractively priced targets, led to a rise in an alternative exit scenario for private equity firms: selling their portfolio companies to themselves, typically by c

More Exclusives

• 05. Apr. | Opalesque Roundup: Inflows and performance lift hedge fund AUM to over $3.4 trillion: hedge fund news, week 13 [more]

  In the week ending April 2nd 2021, eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report said that global hedge funds continued their strong start to 2021 with elevated asset flows

• 01. Apr. | Opalesque Exclusive: Duo Reges Capital Management takes on human-machine bias [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: When you think about investing buzzwords and phrases it's hard to find one buzzier than "machine learning". These days it's all about finding the right qua

• 31. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Emerging manager Fate Capital bets on economic recovery [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: The middle of a pandemic is probably not a moment when a lot of people think about starting a hedge fund. But for Fate Capital, the pandemic was an opportunity. By

• 26. Mar. | Asia Pacific private equity deal value hits new highs despite the pandemic [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Private equity deal value across the Asia Pacific hit a new record in 2020 despite the pandemic, according to new data from Bain & Company. Deal value across the region hit a record high of $185 billion, up 19% from 2019 and 23% over the previous five-year avera

• 22. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Rotella Qdeck envisions hedge funds as a service [more]

  Rotella Capital Management has a new look. The firm, now known as Rotella Qdeck, is reimagining itself with the aid of new technology and a new platform for investors. Rotella Qdeck is a fintech platform offering "hedge funds as a service". In essence, the platform offers investors cu

• 22. Mar. | Opalesque Roundup: Hedge fund industry gains 3.76% YTD in February 2021: hedge fund news, week 11 [more]

  In the week ending March 19th 2020, BarclayHedge announced that the hedge fund industry continued its positive run in February, as Barclay Hedge Fund Index returned 2.68% for the month. By comparison, the S&P Total Return Index

• 19. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Yield hungry investors stick with private debt [more]

  Investors on the hunt for yield are pouring assets into private credit. According to data from Preqin, the asset class is on pace to hit $1.5 trillion by 2025. Hundreds of new funds are fundraising this year and many investors have indicated they are also interested in re-upping with existing relati

• 17. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Life settlements stand strong as some other 'Bedrock investments' are failing investors [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Life settlements is one of the few asset classes that can protect portfolios against the deflationary scenario, deliver stable performance in a "muddle through" scenario, and even do well in a moderate inflation scenario, claims

• 16. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Investing in China growth without following consensus works well for this manager [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Investing in the high growth generational theme in China can be rewarding especially if the investor seeks non-consensus stocks with attractive values, according to a manager whose fund returned 40% net last year, compared to the MSCI China index's 26%. Michelle L

• 16. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Investing in China growth without following consensus works well for this manager [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Investing in the high growth generational theme in China can be rewarding especially if the investor seeks non-consensus stocks with attractive values, according to a manager whose fund returned 40% net last year, compared to the MSCI China index's 26%. Michelle L

• 11. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: Asset management M&A remains elevated despite pandemic [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: M&A within asset management is continuing at an elevated rate despite the pandemic, according to a new report from investment bank Piper Sandler. 256 asset management transactions were completed in 2020, a 5% decrease from 2019 but a continuation of higher than

• 08. Mar. | Opalesque Exclusive: New aviation fund returns 20% in February by betting on recovery [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva: 2020 resulted in the worst ever global airline financial performance. From a position where 2019 profits were just under $26bn, losses are expected to be over $118bn in 2020, according to

• 08. Mar. | Ex Treasury Group MD joins Mantis Funds [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Australian multi-affiliate manager, Mantis Funds announced that Rodney Green, a founder of Pacific Current Group and a pioneer in the multi-affiliate space, is joining its board. The Sydney-based fund manager which was launched last year by hedge fund managers Timot

• 08. Mar. | Opalesque Roundup: Hedge funds AUM, up $300bn in Q4 2020, reaches all time high: hedge fund news, week 10 [more]

  In the week ending March 05th, 2021, data provider Preqin said that hedge funds assets under management (AUM) grew to just shy of $4tn in Q4 2020, mainly driven by performance. AUM rose $299bn from

More Other Voices

• 30. Mar. 2021 | Other Voices: The ripples behind the SPAC wave [more]

  By: Michael Hackett, David Heck, Jonathan Weiss The past year saw a burst in popularity of SPACs. More than half of companies that went public in 2020 did so using a SPAC on their way to raising over $80 billion in proceeds, and so far in 2021 SPAC offerings far outpace traditional IPOs. SPACs a

• 30. Mar. 2021 | Other Voices: The ripples behind the SPAC wave [more]

  By: Michael Hackett, David Heck, Jonathan Weiss The past year saw a burst in popularity of SPACs. More than half of companies that went public in 2020 did so using a SPAC on their way to raising over $80 billion in proceeds, and so far in 2021 SPAC offerings far outpace traditional IPOs. SPACs a

• 19. Mar. 2021 | Other Voices: Trends in demand for hedge fund strategies [more]

  By: Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners The hedge fund industry is dynamic, comprising of numerous strategies that attract varying degrees of interest over time. Demand for each strategy is impacted by many variables including capital market valuations, expectations of economic growth, inflation,

• 12. Mar. 2021 | Other Voices: Volatility ahead? What to make of recent Fed and Treasury moves [more]

  Authored by EG Fisher, co-CIO, Mariner Investment Group, LLP. With vaccinations in course around the globe, the financial markets are looking for signs of when the global economy will shake off the coronavirus hangover and what a post-COVID economy might look like. Two recent

• 04. Mar. 2021 | Other Voices: UK private funds face Brexit challenges [more]

  By: Elena Faloutsou, Greg Norman, Abigail Reeves - Skadden The negotiations that culminated in the establishment of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) at the end of 2020 concluded with no meaningful agreement in relation to the provision of financial services between the United Kingdom an

• 23. Feb. 2021 | Other Voices: Hedge fund launches in 2021: obstacles and opportunities [more]

  By Aaron Steinberg, Head of Prime Services Sales and Relationship Management at BNY Mellon Pershing There were 42 launches in Q3 of 2020-the lowest of any fiscal quarter of the last five years-and of those launch

• 11. Feb. 2021 | Other Voices: Congress restores and codifies expansive SEC fines authority [more]

  By: Catherine Botticelli , Anthony S. Kelly, Eric Auslander, Dennis Lawson and Lindsay E. Ray Overriding a presidential veto, Congress on January 1, 2021 enacted the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021. In part, the NDAA restored significant

• 27. Jan. 2021 | Other Voices: Private equity ends 2020 on a high [more]

  By: Ian Bagshaw | Oliver Brahmst | Daniel Yeh Global private equity dealmaking continued its dramatic return to form in the fourth quarter, posting a strong finish to the year. Total deal value in Q4 came to US$336.5 billion, a 40% increase on the same quarter in 2019, while volume climbed 12% t

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AUSSIE $ / US $ CROSS – Weekly

Currently: Cash Looking to: Buy @ 0.74792

As of 3/21/21 @ 9:08pm EST: 0.77161

LAST WEEK: We suggested buying at 0.74792 with stops on a close below 0.74500 with a selling target at 0.80516. Shorts were suggested at 0.81113 with stops on a close above 0.81250 and with the idea of holding for a while.

UPDATE: AUDUSD faded into the weekend on Friday and looks to us like it still needs to work its way down to 0.74792 before any real stabilization occurs in the short-term.

No changes to our trade recommendations from last week.