Today's Exclusives

• Opalesque Exclusive: Richmond Global Compass ends 2018 up +9.99% [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: While many hedge funds ended 2018 in the red, the Richmond Global Compass Fund was up +9.99% net of fees. The fund runs a discretionary global macro strategy that

• Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index ended 2018 down 2.93% in second loss year [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The Eurekahedge ILS Advisers Index, that covers insurance-linked securities (ILS) hedge fund strategies, ended 2018 down 2.93%, recording its second consecutive year of losses after 2017, during which the index slumped 5.60%. The catastrophic losses incurred by Hu

• Global hedge fund industry AUM stood at $2.336tn as of December 2018: Eurekahedge [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: The assets under management (AUM) of the global hedge fund industry stood at $2.336tn as of December 2018, down roughly 4.5% throughout the year, placing 2018 as the worst year for the global hedge fund industry since the global financial crisis. According to Eureka

Today's Other Voices

• 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

More Exclusives

• 16. Jan. | Opalesque Exclusive: Investors grow wary as market risks rise [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Hedge fund investors are growing more concerned over slower economic growth in the year ahead, according to the results of a survey published today by BarclayHedge and Markov Processes International (MPI). According to the survey, more than one third (38%)

• 14. Jan. | Opalesque Roundtable: Hong Kong views on globalisation [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva: One of the many topics discussed during the recent Opalesque Roundtable in Hong Kong was whether globalisation is dead, still alive or just morphing into a different form. China is ind

• 14. Jan. | Opalesque Exclusive: Real estate expert comes back to invest-tech with launch of platform [more]

  B. G., Opalesque Geneva: Manfredi Mattei Filo della Torre is launching a real estate private debt investment platform that links investors and real estate managers. "Janus.pe is going through a pre-qualifyin

• 14. Jan. | Opalesque Roundup: In a contrarian move, contrarian hedge fund manager Jeff Vinik re-opens fund: hedge fund news, week 02 [more]

  In the week ending January 11th 2019, investment titan Jeffrey Vinik said he is ready to manage money for outside clients again and plans to relaunch his hedge fund firm Vinik Asset Management after sitting out the last six years. While other hedge-fund titans are quitting, Jeff Vinik is going ba

• 10. Jan. | Opalesque Roundtable: Investors may need to rethink portfolio construction as market cycle extends [more]

  Money managers and investors may need to rethink how they view portfolio construction as we move later into the cycle, according to delegates at the recent Opalesque Switzerland Roundtable. "For 30 years, interest rates have come down and most money managers have never experienced that when equ

• 07. Jan. | Opalesque Roundup: Significant upside opportunities for hedge funds in Asia: hedge fund news, week 01 [more]

  In the week ending January 04th 2019 Don Steinbrugge, CEO of Agecroft Partners, posted a list of industry trends highlighting, among other developments, the fact that many Asian markets are d

• 02. Jan. | Opalesque Exclusive: Private equity goes long healthcare in 2019 [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Going small is getting big in private equity. As big buyout deals have become expensive and harder to find more capital and investing activity is going into the middle and small end of the market. In 2019, funds are likely to continue with this trend. Investing

• 31. Dec. | Opalesque Roundup: Art world can't burn a seasoned hedge fund investor: hedge fund news, week 51 [more]

  In the week ending December 21th 2018, it's interesting what you can learn when a seasoned hedge fund investor and passionate art collector speaks about his hedge fund-like 'multi-strategy' approach when investing in art. Similar to the hedge fund industry in the 1990's the ar

• 28. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: Hecksher Partners launches outsourced c-suite platform for asset managers [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: As the asset management industry has matured, investment managers have gotten better about running the business side of the business. The big, brand-name funds all

• 24. Dec. | Opalesque Roundup: Art world can't burn a seasoned hedge fund investor: hedge fund news, week 51 [more]

  In the week ending December 21th 2018, it's interesting what you can learn when a seasoned hedge fund investor and passionate art collector speaks about his hedge fund-like 'multi-strategy' approach when investing in art. Similar to the hedge fund industry in the 1990's the ar

• 21. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: PineBridge's Kelly: late cycle concerns are overblown [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: Are markets late cycle, or merely dealing with a mid-life crisis? A new outlook from Michael Kelly, global head of multi-asset at PineBridge suggests that even with recent stock market volatility we aren't quite headed toward the late cycle correction many e

• 20. Dec. | Opalesque Exclusive: GreenOak Real Estate merges with Bentall Kennedy [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: GreenOak Real Estate and Bentall Kennedy, Sun Life Financial's North American real estate and property management firm have formed a new joint venture. The combined Bentall Kennedy and GreenOak entity will be named Bentall GreenOak and will be part of Sun Li

• 19. Dec. | Private Equity may have run its way [more]

  Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia: Investing in private equity may have run its way in the current cycle with valuations having become very high and given the amount of dry powder waiting to be invested. Daniel von Allmen, Chairman & CIO, Progressive Capital, said at a recent Opalesque Switzerland R

• 19. Dec. | Opalesque TV: Jim Hedges to launch art investment fund [more]

  Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: James R. Hedges, IV was one of the early leaders in the hedge fund and alternative investments industry and is the author of Hedges on Hedge Funds. He was the Founder, President, and Chief Investment Officer of LJH Global Investments, LLC, an alternative investm

More Other Voices

• 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

• 31. Oct. 2018 | Other Voices: How to take advantage of the current market sell-off [more]

  By Alex Gavrish, Etalon Capital Ltd; author of "Story Investing" Alex Gavrish explains

• 18. Oct. 2018 | Other Voices: Does hedge-fund activism really increase shareholder value? [more]

  By: Cydney Posner, Cooley, LLP The public debate about hedge-fund activism has long been informed by academic literature that found increases in shareholder value and operating performance after activist interventions. But do hedge-fund activists actually do any long-term good for the companies

• 12. Oct. 2018 | Other Voices: A new SEC focus on short activism? Activist hedge fund Lemelson Capital charged with unlawful short attack [more]

  By: Lawrence S. Elbaum, Clifford Thau, Patrick Gadson and Sarah C.C. Tishler On September 12, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged hedge fund, Lemelson Capital and its adviser, Gregory Lemelson, with perpetrating an unlawful short attack on Ligand Pharmaceuticals. The SEC's compl

• 04. Oct. 2018 | Other Voices: BVI passes new limited partnership act [more]

  By: Trident Trust The BVI has modernised its partnerships regime with the enactment of a new Limited Partnership Act, 2017 and Limited Partnership Regulations, 2018, both of which entered into force on 11 January 2018. A key feature of the new regime is that it allows limited partnerships t

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Sea Change Indicators:

Sea Change Long-Term Indicators:

• US Lg Caps – cash; 5.81% below resistance. (LT oversold signal – 51.46 current vs. 25 needed)

• US Mid Caps – cash; 8.58% below resistance (LT oversold signal – 48.04 current vs. 24.625 needed)

• US Small Caps – cash; 10.29% upside to resistance; (LT oversold signal – 48.19 current vs. 22 needed)

• MSCI EAFE – cash; 8.65% upside to resistance; (LT oversold signal – 41.91 current vs 23 needed)

• Emerg. Mkts – cash; 5.38% below resistance; (LT oversold signal – 46.42 vs 30 needed)

Sea Change Opportunistic Indicator:

The current reading is 1.00. We will need to see at least two days above 1.20 and then a turn lower on a daily close. If and when it does give us a “buy” signal, the idea is to go