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

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

I Can?t Find Funding. Is My Idea Dead? No, Consider a Campaign to License!

Most inexperienced entrepreneurs are unaware of the many options and alternative strategies available to push a new idea or invention to market. The most common approach they seek to implement is a classic funding round. When this avenue fails, and with overwhelming frequency it does, the idea often is dropped.  Driven inventors attend invention trade … Read more

Exactly How Consumer Research Can Show You Some Challenging Trends

Whenever we arm ourselves with all the appropriate facts we’re able to produce judgements that actually generate good results. This seems like an obvious affirmation in a number of perspectives, but in reality we very often base important judgements on limited or maybe unfinished facts. We may feel that we have collected plenty of relevant … Read more

Marketing Advice as Consumer Saving Increases

35 years after the US personal savings rate peaked at 14.6%, the personal savings rate has recently settled in at 4% in May 2010 (after turning negative in 2005).  The Federal Reserve released data that showed credit card balances dropped .5 billion during April 2010, the 19th month in an unprecedented stretch of declining credit … Read more