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

Online, October 21, 2010 (Newswire.com) - 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).