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.
Kovitz Investment Group Q4 letter to shareholders.
This quarterly installment of our investment commentary follows a Question and Answer format. We attempted to include a wide range of issues, from... read more
The EU’s executive said on Thursday that the euro zone is headed back into another recession in just about three years. The executive said that euro zone was and... read more
This is the second part of a short series covering a rare interview with Chinese investor Li Lu and Charlie Munger.
The first part of the series is here: Charlie Munger... read more
Many value investors are acquainted with Benjamin Graham through the various editions of his classic investment textbook entitled Security Analysis. Far fewer are acquainted with Benjamin Graham via his... read more
FORECASTS & TRENDS E-LETTER
by Gary D. Halbert
April 24, 2018
Buy Side Trade Desks Budgets Finally Increase, But Robots Taking Human Bonuses
Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc
1. Record # of... read more
Oil Versus Deep Value Stock Investing Smack-Down via Wendl Financial, author of The Net Current Asset Value Approach to Stock Investing: A Guide to Purchasing Stocks Trading below Liquidation Value
The... read more
From 2009 to 2012, the US entered an era of “ beautiful deleveraging ,” a Morgan Stanley report recently noted, citing “a respected client” who coined the phrase. The... read more
Cash’s Death coming soon - well it depends who you ask but one big bank is not buying it.
With a plethora of emerging digital options on top of traditional... read more
Looking from his New York City headquarters, Sean Riskowitz has an eye on South African investments and he is disappointed. After posting big annual returns – 68.1%, 34.3% 50.5%... read more
In the darkest days of the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve created Maiden Lane III, a special purpose vehicle which took on $30 billion in assets from American banks... read more