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.
Apache Corporation (NYSE:APA) announced last week that it has plans to exit the Gulf of Mexico by selling its Shelf operations and assets to Fieldwood Energy LLC for a cash... Read More
When considering the decline in emerging markets, Sir Michael Hintze, founder of London-based hedge fund CQS, says investors shouldn’t have been surprised.
Hintze: "Quantitative easing is stimulating downtown Mumbai rather than... Read More
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Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more
The letter, a copy of which ValueWalk has been... Read More
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EY’s seventh annual... Read More
Ten thousand dollars invested in the stock market in 1934 would have been worth $21 million in 2007, but there’s always a reason to stay out of the market,... Read More
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In Amazon’s 2016 letter to shareholders, Bezos introduced some tenets the company lives by. The one that struck me was “Disagree & Commit”:
Get The Timeless... Read More