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.
Bob Olstein, Olstein Capital Management, shares three stock picks (Oracle Corporation, Marsh & McLennan and Harman International) right now, saying Oracle is headed to $60 in the next 2-3... read more
Robust performance brings total assets to $3.22tn, despite outflows of more than $100bn
2016 Hedge Fund Letters
Assets held by hedge funds globally reached a record $3.22tn as of the end... read more
Whitebox Tactical Opportunities Fund commentary for the second quarter ended June 30, 2015.
Whitebox Tactical Opportunities Fund - The Quarter In Brief
For the calendar quarter ended June 30, 2015, the... read more
General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) reported a 41% decline in profits amidst European woes that have impacted on various global companies adversely. However, this was no bad news at all, as the reported earnings per share of 90 cents beat analysts' projections of 74 cents per share.
GM's sales were down 5% to stand at $37.6 billion from last year's Q2 sales of 39.4 billion, despite a slight increase in the number of vehicles sold globally. This decline was attributed to the strengthening of... read more
Make no mistake: Oil and gas companies may be doing some serious cost-cutting and slimming-and-trimming to stay competitive after the shale boom binge, but when it comes to employment,... read more
Sterne Agee analysts Jay McCanless and Annie Worthman pick out homebuidling winners if subprime mortgage lending expands.
We believe D.R. Horton, Inc. (NYSE:DHI), Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN), Beazer Homes USA, Inc.... read more
Andrew J. Hall, the commodity hedge fund manager and oil trader whose pay package of about $100 million ensnared him in the fight over compensation at bailed-out banks in... read more
China Local Deficit a bigger issue? Though China's explicit government debt is only 16% of GDP, its local governments’ deficit was much bigger at 23.6% of GDP at the... read more
Josh Tarasoff presentation on Markel Corporation.
Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL) is a financial holding company, the primary business of which is specialty property and casualty insurance
Has compounded book value per share... read more
Michael Price got his start as an investor at Mutual Series in 1974, becoming a full partner in 1982 and then the president and chairman a few years later.... read more