Released on: October 6, 2008, 4:44 am

Press Release Author: Opalesque Ltd.

Industry: Financial

Press Release Summary: Geneva, October 6th, 2008 -- Opalesque, 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).

Press Release Body: The Opalesque Roundtable Series provide a catalog of
intelligence on the world's most important hedge fund centers and portrait the most
important local players of each jurisdiction. New York, London, Singapore, Hong
Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, and Auckland are already covered. With the new Geneva
Roundtable, Opalesque enters another major global wealth and asset management
center.

It is estimated that approximately 30% of all global hedge fund investments are
allocated through Switzerland. In addition, a number of single manager hedge funds
and other related service providers have moved here or set up subsidiaries.

The Roundtable was sponsored by Taussig Capital and took place September 8th 2008 in
the offices of Bedrock Group. Opalesque has aligned a hand-picked cross section of
the local players, including representatives from UBP, which with over $55 billion
is the second largest allocator to hedge funds globally, as well as a partner of
$4bln+ hedge fund Jabre Capital, and Dr Stéphane Graber, Deputy Manager, Department
of Economy and Health at the Canton of Geneva - who helps hedge funds to move there
- and many more:

1. Anne Simond, Director, UBP
2. Mark Cecil, Partner, Jabre Capital
3. Thomas Della Casa, Head of Research, RMF / Man Group
4. Jean Keller, CEO, 3A
5. Tony Morongiello, Partner, Caliburn Capital
6. Dr Stéphane Graber, Deputy Manager, Department of Economy and Health, Canton of
Geneva
7. Nicolas Maduz, Managing Partner, Tiberius Group
8. Daniel Penseyres, Partner, Bedrock Group
9. Dr Gregoire Haenni, Partner, Bedrock Group
10. Gabriel Kurland, Founder, Hedge Fund Appraisal
11. Olivier d'Auriol, Founder, D'Auriol Asset Management
12. Eric Halff, Director, ARKION SA
13. Peter Sartogo, Managing Partner, Global Wealth Management SA
14. Joe Taussig, Founder, Taussig Capital

In this Roundtable Script, you will learn:

 What opportunities some of the world's leading hedge fund allocators and
researches see - despite the ongoing turmoil
 With leverage, the big global growth engine until recently, having gone,
what can we expect from emerging markets?
 How efficient risk management has saved a lot of managers, but allocators
still find that when talking to hedge funds "they tell you the truth, but sometimes
not all the truth"...
 A fundamental discussion on operational risk and due diligence: Are the
promises of the fund-of-funds actually worthless when you take a second look?
 In what direction the current environment is forcing hedge fund-of-funds in
order to survive
 How should the fund-of-funds community deal with side pockets?
 What is the true issue behind the liquidity discussion?
 Background on Jabre Capital's "incredibly successful" move to set up in Geneva
 How are family offices coping with the markets and a changing hedge fund
world?

The participants of this Roundtable also elaborate on the historic merger of the
US/UK based hedge fund Fairfield Greenwich Group with the Swiss private bank Banque
Bénédict Hentsch, and why we will be seeing "a lot of hedge fund managers become
involved in Swiss private banking". What are the "fundamental problems" of the hedge
fund industry, and how can this new confluence address them?
The Opalesque Geneva Roundtable can be downloaded here:
http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=static&and=RoundtableGE
All other previously published Opalesque Roundtable Scripts can be accessed here:
http://www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=archiveRT

About Opalesque:

In 2003, with the publication of its daily Alternative Market Briefing, Opalesque
successfully launched an information revolution in the hedge fund media space:
"Opalesque changed the world by bringing transparency where there was opacity and by
delivering an accurate professional reporting service." - Nigel Blanchard, Culross.
This hybrid financial news service, which combines proprietary industry news stories
and filtered third party reports, has been credited by many industry insiders with
delivering precise, accurate, and vital information to a notoriously guarded
audience.

Each week, Opalesque publications are read by more than 500,000 industry
professionals in over 100 countries. Opalesque is the only daily hedge fund
publisher which is actually read by the elite managers themselves
(http://www.opalesque.com/op_testimonials.html).

About Opalesque Publications:

Alternative Market Briefing is a daily newsletter on the global hedge fund industry,
highly praised for its completeness and timely delivery of the most important daily
news for professionals dealing with hedge funds. Alternative Market Briefing offers
both a quick overview and in-depth coverage. Subscribers can also access the
industry’s largest news archive (29,000+ articles) on hedge funds and related
topics.

A SQUARE is the first web publication, globally, that is dedicated exclusively to
alternative investments. A SQUARE's weekly selections feature unique investment
opportunities that bear virtually no correlation to the main stream hedge fund
strategies and/or distinguish themselves by virtue of their "alternative" motive –
for instance, social or behavioral strategies or those focused on natural resources
or sustainable/environment-related investing.

With its "research that reveals" approach, fast facts and investment oriented
analysis, A SQUARE offers diversification and complementary ideas for private, high
net-worth and institutional investors, pension funds and endowments, portfolio and
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Opalesque Roundtable Series: In an Opalesque Roundtable, some of the leading hedge
fund managers (single and multi strategy managers) as well as representatives of the
local investor base (institutions, fund of funds, advisers) are united to gain
unique insights into the specific idiosyncrasies and developments, as well as the
issues and advantages of specific global hedge fund centers.

Through the series, hedge fund investors looking for new talent, a hedge fund
interested in diversifying its investor base service providers looking for new
clients will all get to know some of the leaders in each hedge fund center and will
find invaluable information and intelligence without any travel involved.

For more information, please go to http://www.opalesque.com


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