liquidity

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

Forex-ology Simplified – 5 Unorthodox Steps of a Winning Forex Strategy

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First of all, I want to stress that this trading system of mine is no holy grail and anyone can use it to such high success rate if they follow the rules of the trading system. I have been trading for years and this is one of my forex trading strategies that have kept my … Read more

More hedge funds and investors engage in “Armageddon strategies” or disaster insurance against global meltdown

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Opalesque, the world’s largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has launched the 32nd issue in a series of regional roundtable forums – the 2010 Opalesque West Coast Roundtable. The 25 page Roundtable publication can be downloaded for free at: http://www.opalesque.com/RT/RoundtableSF2010.html   The Western world has run up massive deficits in an effort to … Read more

Alternative Investments

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Traditional investments include cash, bonds and of course, stocks. Alternative investments are typically higher risk because of the trading styles, limited regulations and lack of liquidity. Alternative investments also have high minimum investment amounts and charge a higher fee to manage portfolios. Four common types of alternative capital investments are venture capital funds, hedge funds, … Read more

How Small Funds Outperform Large Funds – a Classic David Vs Goliath

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Often investors get caught by marketing like anyone else and become absolutely in love with a brand. Case in point is that they’ll take lower returns from a large, name brand fund over the higher returns of a lesser known, small fund. To be fair, the large name brand funds may have earned that brand … Read more