Matthias Knab @MatthiasKnab

Over 160 managers from 24 countries have already registered. "The difference between billionaire fund managers and those who fail isn't performance—it's marketing mastery." Great returns alone won’t win mandates. Most fund managers still struggle to raise capital. The…

Your IR Team Is Wasting 60% of Their Time - Here’s how to fix it: Our Productivity Hacks for Investment Managers & IR Teams series has been getting a lot of love, and the last one(Hack #7) must have hit a nerve. We just recorded a new all-time high in shares and forwards. Here’s…

People from 27 countries and literally from the entire #alternativeinvestment universe have already signed up: - Asset Managers - Banks - Endowments - Foundations - Fund of Funds - Individual High Net-Worth Investors - Multi Family Offices - Pension Funds - Service Providers -…

Instead of using shorts merely as portfolio hedges, Steamboat treats short-selling as a distinct alpha-generation strategy—with a 12+ year track record to prove it. That's the case Parsa Kiai (Founder & CIO) and Farhad Dalvi (Director of Research) will be making at the Opalesque…

How is the guy who allocated to legends like Soros, Robertson, Cohen, Steinhardt, Cooperman or Griffin (when they were like $30-$50m) investing today? With almost 45 years in finance, Thomas Zucosky shares a front-row seat to the institutionalization-and disillusionment-of…

Sounding the Alarm, again: The Deception behind the Ritossa persona At the SuperReturn conference in early June in Berlin, I learned that fake "Sir" Anthony Ritossa is again spreading falsehoods - this time about me. So let me set the record straight, not just for my integrity,…

Recommended events for start-up and smaller managers in London and Chicago | The Greenwich Economic Forum comes to London next week! Following the highly successful AIMA - The Alternative Investment Management Association Next Gen Manager Forum in London last month, I wanted to…

📉💥 Mutual Funds vs. Hedge Funds in Times of Crisis — Who’s Smarter? A recent study in The North American Journal of Economics and Finance confirms what many allocators already sense: hedge funds not only outperform mutual funds but also withstand financial contagion far…

Small Managers - BIG ALPHA Episode 17: Tuesday June 10th 11 am ET (4pm GMT, 5pm CET, 6pm Riyadh, 7pm Dubai, 8:30pm Delhi) With larger quantities of capital chasing the same Alpha strategies and continuing to erode Alpha, savvy investors are turning to smaller and/or emerging…

I'm talking to Investment Managers here. Just imagine for a moment what it would mean if your conversion rate doubles and is up 100%? ⁉️ The truth is that it’s gotten harder and harder for fund managers to launch an investment management business and to grow it. 📈 😰 For…

Raise More. Lose Less. Proven Marketing Strategies for Investment Managers: Strong performance alone won’t grow your AUM. In today’s market, effective marketing systems are what separate thriving firms from the invisible. “You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall…

The inevitable transformation of America's largest industry ($5tn / year!) will create exceptional wealth-building opportunities through early-stage digital health investments, even amid broader economic volatility. Boosted by advanced technologies such as: artificial…

Have you registered already for this year's @AIM_Summit (aimsummit.com/event/london20…): I'm excited to attend and to moderate the ENERGY panel (with Lisa Audet and Michael Azlen), and another cutting edge session "The Future of Digital Asset Allocation: Beyond Bitcoin and Ethereum,…

Small Managers, BIG Alpha – With 100+ Years of Collective Experience! But don’t let the term "small managers" fool you: size doesn’t dictate expertise... Join us for the @Opalesque Small Managers - BIG ALPHA Episode 16, featuring four elite investors with an average of 25+…

5 reasons your portfolio needs emerging hedge fund managers (April 3): As we approach our Investor Workshop on April 3rd, I wanted to share some encouraging developments in the hedge fund and alternative investment landscape that highlight the growing opportunities for…

Vincent Weber, CEO of Resonanz Capital, is not only a sophisticated hedge fund investor but a tech pioneer, having built the only AI-driven investment selection platform for Hedge Funds, Liquid Alts, and Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) - eliminating selection bias, data…

I'm excited to tell you about the next Neil Greene's ELITE Global Leaders Conference at the College Green Hotel Dublin being held March 19-21, 2025. Neil A. Greene is the Founder & CEO of JABOY Productions, and I've attended his previous European conferences in London (2022)…

How Resonanz Capital’s AI-Powered Platform Has Changed Hedge Fund, Liquid Alts & QIS Investing: It was 1987 when I first started learning to code—38 years ago, during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. I was a quick and passionate learner, and by 1991, I was already responsible for…

Are Funds Bought Because of Performance or Other Factors? When hedge fund managers think about raising assets, their first instinct is often to focus on performance. After all, isn't that what investors care about most? While strong returns certainly help, the reality is more…