Most quantitative strategies are built to understand markets. R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management took a different path: it built its models to understand humans. The distinction, as the firm's team ...

Episode 20 of Opalesque's flagship Small Managers - BIG ALPHA webinar series brought together four boutique investment managers who have each found a distinct path to generating alpha independently of ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission have jointly proposed sweeping amendments to Form PF that would significantly reduce the reporting burden on private ...

The International Monetary Fund's message is remarkably consistent across all three regions (Western Hemisphere, Europe and Asia) in its recent blogs on the impact of the mayhem in the Middle East: ...

European hedge funds closed out a positive quarter on a strong note in March 2026, attracting $5.6bn in net inflows even as funds domiciled in the Americas suffered net outflows of $1.4bn - a striking ...

Geopolitical shocks from the Middle East conflict, a sharply weaker US dollar, and a fierce battle for institutional mandates all defined the week. Against this backdrop, hedge fund performance ...

Global hedge funds faced severe equity losses in March 2026 as the Middle East conflict intensified, but energy emerged as a rare bright spot, attracting a wave of inflows from the Hazeltree fund ...

The Financial Conduct Authority on 16 April 2026 published PS26/5, its final policy statement on changes to the UK short selling regime, closing out consultation CP25/29 and setting a main ...

BlackRock calls it the "diversification mirage." The AI theme has cut across equities, credit, and private markets simultaneously, creating hidden concentrations that investors often do not discover ...

BlackRock's freshly published Hedge Fund Outlook Spring 2026 makes a striking case: the current market environment - shaped by AI-driven disruption, supply shocks, geopolitical volatility, and ...

Against that volatile backdrop, investor conversations turned to portfolio resilience, the limits of traditional diversification, and the enduring case for boutique managers. Opalesque Exclusive ...

Robert Rubinstein built TrustVC.org after years of watching fake VCs, data-room poachers and phantom family offices abuse founders with impunity. Now he wants the industry to fight back. Read on to ...