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Geneva Roundtable Reveals How Family Offices, Fund of Funds Cope With the Markets and a Changing Hedge Fund World

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eneva, October 6th, 2008 — Opalesque(Hedge Fund News), the world’s largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has just launched the eighth issue of its groundbreaking Roundtable Series, the Opalesque Geneva Roundtable (download here: http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=static&and=RoundtableGE). The Opalesque Roundtable Series provide a catalog of intelligence on the world’s most important hedge fund centers and portrait … Read more

LatAm Hedge Fund Outlook 2010

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Alternative Latin Investor recently spoke with two high profile hedge fund players in Latin America, Otávio Vieira, Portfolio Manager at Safdié and Carlos Rojas Perla, Chief Investment Officer at Compass Group. We were privileged to hear how both managers felt markets had played out in 2009 and to learn of the themes they expect to … Read more

Opalesque Hong Kong Roundtable: Reverse brain drain from New York, London boosts Asian hedge fund industry

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Then the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98 made people realize that long-only leveraged equities or property were not necessarily the best asset classes, so they started to be interested in structured products or hedged vehicles. For many years, there was no interest in Asian-based hedge funds. If they were interested investing in a hedge fund … Read more

Roundtable: Nordic Hedge Fund Leaders Say Hedge Funds a Stabilizing Force, Confident on Further Growth But Warn Over “race to Ever Shorter Liquid

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Stockholm, October 21st 2008 — Opalesque, the world’s largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has just launched the ninth issue of its groundbreaking Roundtable Series, the Opalesque Nordic Roundtable (download here: http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=static&and=RoundtableNORDIC). Some of the Nordic hedge funds and CTAs have track records that go back to 1991. There are more than 200 … Read more

Asia experiences wave of hedge fund startups, “Which is exactly what we saw post the Asian crisis?”

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Peter Douglas, principal of GFIA, a Singapore-based consulting firm, said that the rebound of Asian hedge funds as seen by these startups, is similar to the developments post the last Asian crisis: “A lot of the great names of the Asian hedge fund industry were actually set up around the end of the Asian crisis. … Read more