Goldman Sachs thinks considering the top stocks based on its Sharpe ratio portfolio could help their hedge fund clients in making appropriate decisions, a recent Kickstart strategy report dated December 12 said.
If it were ranked, the Goldman Sharpe Ratio portfolio would be the 82 percentile of absolute returns of the 200 largest large-cap core mutual funds, up 12 percent year to date.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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