Opalesque CT Roundtable : Industry moves from asset allocation to risk allocation, risk measurement to real risk management

The Roundtable took place in October 2010 with the following experts:a-pub-5157679868954075″, “Left_Column_To;Technology• Donald Brownstein, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, Structured Portfolio Management• Joe Taussig, Founder, Taussig Capital AG• Jonathan Litt, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Land and Buildings• Kevin Schweitzer, General Partner, Chief Investment Officer, RockView Capital• Marco Bianchi, Head of US Business Development, … Read more

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

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

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

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

Japan: A Reality Check for Visiting Hedge Fund Managers

Tokyo, June 10 2009 — Opalesque has published the 2009 Opalesque Japan Roundtable, whose findings will surprise many financial professionals. In this 33-page Roundtable script, Japan-based investment veterans share how the financial crisis has changed investing in and asset raising from Japanese institutions. The new Japan Roundtable can be downloaded here for free: http://www.opalesque.com/RT/RoundtableJapan2009.html   … 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

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