Already 30,000 Read Weekly Versions of Industry-Leading Daily Opalesque Publications

New York (I-Newswire) October 21, 2010 - New York: Opalesque, the world's largest subscription-based publisher covering the alternative investment industry, has launched five free, weekly versions of its market leading financial publications. Opalesque was formed in 2001 to provide professional news services to participants in the alternative investment sector. Since inception, Opalesque has been providing premium online information services related to the hedge fund and investment industries.

Already 30,000 users from over 170 countries have subscribed to a selection of the following new, weekly Opalesque publications:
• Opalesque Alternative Market Briefing Weekly – Opalesque's market leading hedge fund publication now in weekly format: www.opalesque.com/CurrentIssueAMW.html
• Opalesque Commodities Briefing Weekly (www.opalesque.com/Commodities_Briefing)
• Opalesque Sovereign Wealth Funds Briefing Weekly (www.opalesque.com/SWF_Briefing)
• Opalesque Real Estate Briefing Weekly (www.opalesque.com/Realestate_Briefing)
• Opalesque Islamic Finance Briefing Weekly (www.opalesque.com/IslamicFinance_Briefing)
All Opalesque online publications can be ordered here for free: www.opalesque.com/index.php?act=trial

“These industry-leading Opalesque publications can now be received in either daily frequency or as weekly summary of the most important news and developments of the last seven days. With already over 30,000 users subscribed to the new publications, financial media users have quickly embraced the weekly format”, says Matthias Knab, founder and managing editor of 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 publishes over digital 700,000 copies of its now seventeen publications to a global readership in over 170 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 Ltd:
Opalesque was formed in 2001 to provide professional news services to participants in the alternative investment sector. Since inception, Opalesque has been providing premium online information services related to the hedge fund and investment industries. The Opalesque publication Alternative Market Briefing is the only daily hedge fund news service read by the elite hedge fund managers themselves (see our Testimonial page for more)

Opalesque is led by Matthias Knab, an internationally recognized expert on hedge funds and alternatives. Mr. Knab has frequently served as chairman of hedge fund conferences in New York, Greenwich, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Miami, Bahamas, Stockholm, Dubai etc. In addition, he has presented or moderated at hedge fund 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.

After having been in the IT and consultancy business since 1988, in the year 2000 Matthias Knab started to publish a pioneering newsletter "Industry Report" which was focusing on the ascent of Electronic Trading within the online brokerage industry. It was at that time when he started to establish his first links into the hedge fund industry and became aware about the need of a daily, independent and encompassing news service on this thriving industry. For more information on Opalesque and all Opalesque publications, please go to http://www.opalesque.com.

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