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.
Perry Capital closes after 28 years in the business reports Bloomberg News this evening.
UPDATE: ValueWalk has obtained the full letter which can be found at the bottom of this... Read More
Hedge funds had their second straight month of losses in April, though industry-wide assets under management continued to grow due to strong inflows. The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index lost... Read More
The EPA’s new limits on carbon emissions make it difficult to impossible to open a new coal plant, but with falling demand growth, cheap gas, and improved renewables, new... Read More
According to a recent Form 4 filing with the SEC, billionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn bought another 33,515 shares of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) on February 26 at a... Read More
After removing a user from Twitter without going through the normal public documentation routine, hackers have exposed the personal information of Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR)’s founders and top executives. But... Read More
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There is a general wisdom spread among economists that the poor struggling with debt relative to the wealthy. A new report from Capital Economics, however, takes a different tact.... Read More
A Seattle-based company called LendingRobot is making marketplace lending a bit more interesting for investors.
An automated high-speed investment service for marketplace lending, LendingRobot allows individuals to invest in loans... Read More
Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) has announced plans to cut 2100 jobs and close 16 offices as the mortgage refinancing business drys up. The rise in mortgage rates across... Read More
Although Chinese companies (Proview and Zhi Zhen Internet Technology) are trying as hard as they can to pull down Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) by firing suits here and there, their efforts to... Read More