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.
The trends which were distinctly not in favor of the CTAs for most of this year, changed for the better in the past two months. Credit Suisse Managed Futures... read more
When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced its Apple Pay service, a payment method being touted as easier and more secure than standard credit card transactions, did Apple bit into a... read more
When Norwegian IT services company EVRY IPO'd in June, the market viewed the company with skepticism. EVRY was brought to market by Apax, the private equity firm after being... read more
In a recent interview, controversial activist hedge fund manager William Ackman defends himself as a patriotic job creator, but doesn’t address what might be his living legacy.
Ackman claimed to... read more
Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues have moved to the forefront of activist investing, and the topic was the focus of a panel at the The Deal's Corporate... read more
Many thanks for all your responses to the blind valuation quiz.
As a reminder, here’s a quick refresher of the financial data I posted several weeks ago as part of... read more
As the United Nations made incremental progress towards creating an organized process for sovereign bankruptcy Thursday, the whisper question is currently will Brazil be the next Greece?
Brazil deteriorating and... read more
The oil tanker market has been depressed since 2008. A combination of oversupply within the industry as well as slumping daily spot rates has thrown almost all tanker companies... read more
Defaults Will Breach The Historical High Next Year - The Fed Is The "Wild Card" by Stephen B. Blumenthal, Capital Management Group
Investor Behavior – “You can bury your head... read more
Bronte Capital's Amalthea Fund commentary for the second quarter ended June 30, 2020.
Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more
The fund was down by 4.84% in June whereas the... read more