Opalesque

Established in 2001 by Matthias Knab, an internationally recognised expert on hedge funds and alternatives, Opalesque started in Feb. 2003 the first digital, email-/internet-based newsletter on hedge funds and alternative investments (“Alternative Market Briefing”), to provide professional news services to participants in this industry. The launch of these Briefings was a revolution in the hedge fund media space, bringing transparency where there was opacity and by reliably delivering a a daily accurate professional reporting service. Mr. Knab has frequently served as chairman of hedge fund conferences in New York, Greenwich, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Miami, Bahamas, Stockholm, and Dubai etc. In addition, he has presented or moderated hundreds of financial events in London, Geneva, Zurich, Singapore, Sydney, Cape Town, Madrid, Moscow, Sao Paolo, San Francisco, Toronto, Cayman Islands, Auckland and Bombay, and lectured at numerous universities on the subjects of hedge funds and the state of the global alternative asset management industry. Already in 2000 Matthias Knab started to publish a pioneering email based newsletter "Industry Report" focusing on the ascent of Electronic Trading within the online brokerage industry. Today, Opalesque publishes over 400,000 digital copies of its 6 specialist publications to a growing professional user base.