Opalesque Exclusive: V2 launches hedged equity mutual fund
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York: V2 Capital has launched a new hedged equity vehicle. The V2 Hedged Equity Fund is an open-ended single manager mutual fund utilizing the hedged equity strategy the...
View ArticleROUNDTABLE :- Opalesque Roundtable Series - Gibraltar
Gibraltar is a self-governing, self-financing U.K. Overseas Territory to which all E.U. treaties apply and where European law applies, except for agriculture, fishery and VAT, which is not applied in...
View ArticleAMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: New Balliol Credit Alpha Fund finds sweet spot in...
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: In 2013, Deutsche Bank consolidated its investment-grade debt and asset-backed securities trading units in London to cut costs and riskier...
View ArticleOpalesque Exclusive: New Balliol Credit Alpha Fund finds sweet spot in...
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers: In 2013, Deutsche Bank consolidated its investment-grade debt and asset-backed securities trading units in London to cut costs and riskier...
View ArticleAMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: Old ParkÂs Maestro CTA up +20.48% YTD
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: CTAs have been doing well in the last few months. But not as well as Old ParkÂs. The Maestro strategy is up +20.48% YTD after returning 1.6% in October 2014 just...
View ArticleOpalesque Exclusive: Old ParkÂs Maestro CTA up +20.48% YTD
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: CTAs have been doing well in the last few months. But not as well as Old ParkÂs. The Maestro strategy is up +20.48% YTD after returning 1.6% in October 2014 just...
View ArticleAMB :- Opalesque Exclusive: Greenlight's Q3 letter - "a frustrating...
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: David Einhorn has had "a frustrating quarter" according to an investor letter reviewed by Opalesque. The firm&`s only breakout winner was its...
View ArticleAMB :- Investment analyst: Investors should short UK assets following EU...
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: The Sunday Times reported on 18th October said that David Cameron was planning to slash EU migration by imposing an annual cap on the number of national insurance...
View ArticleOpalesque Exclusive: Greenlight's Q3 letter - "a frustrating...
Bailey McCann, Opalesque New York for New Managers: David Einhorn has had "a frustrating quarter" according to an investor letter reviewed by Opalesque. The firm's only breakout winner was its position...
View ArticleAMB :- Dominique Strauss-KahnÂs hedge fund closes down following...
Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva: Following his well-publicized fall in May 2011 in New York, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (aka DSK), former head of the IMF and former finance minister, went back to...
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- Gold price bears take charge of bullion
When the price of gold collapsed in the summer of 2013 Chinese buyers stepped in sensing a bargain, in the process putting China ahead of India as the worldÂs largest consumer of the precious metal....
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- A price battle in the oil market
Brent crude, the benchmark oil future, slumped to a four-year low around $80 a barrel this week; US futures fell to a three-year trough of $77. This was due to Saudi Arabia, the key producer in the...
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- OPEC: Energy demand to increase by 60 pct by 2040
By 2040, energy demand is expected to increase by 60 percent to 256 million barrels oil equivalent per day (mb/d), according to OPEC's report: World Oil Outlook for 2014. The Organization of the...
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- Oil at $70? ÂPanic in OPECÂ
OPEC would likely lower the ceiling on its collective production if oil prices fall to $70 a barrel, a level most of the groupÂs members donÂt expect to see this year, according to several of the...
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- OPEC cuts oil price forecasts as Âprice...
The group of the world's biggest global oil exporters has cut its forecasts for the price growth and global demand for oil. In its annual World Oil Outlook, published Thursday afternoon, the...
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- Oil Price at $70 a Barrel Would Likely Trigger Cut in...
As oil prices slid further downward Thursday, OPEC signaled that it isnÂt ready to hit the panic buttonÂyet. OilÂs more-than-25% decline since the summer has led to speculation that the Organization...
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- Vladimir Putin: oil price decline has been engineered...
As slumping oil prices dampen Russia's economic outlook, the country's President has said that "at some moments of crisis it starts to feel like it is the politics that prevails in the pricing of...
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- Are Commodities at a Major Turning Point?
As most of you probably know, I have been expecting the CRB to form a major three year cycle low sometime next summer. However, IÂm now starting to see some things that might indicate a major cycle...
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- Banks brace for Senate's commodities hearing
Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan is preparing to take one last swing at Wall Street before leaving Congress. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Mr. Levin (D., Mich), announced...
View ArticleCommodities Briefing :- Commodity slump brings gains, losses
Everything is cheaper. Almost. The commodity supercycle that started in the 2000s, fuelled by ChinaÂs enormous appetite, and which peaked around the time of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, is tapering...
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