24 Jan

Millennium Cub Off To Strong Start; Bullish On Steel As China Curbs "Zombie" Industries

For Lee Bressler, his trading career at Carbon Investment Partners got started with a bang. Along with partner Brandon Bradford, CEO of the firm, the two have transitioned from the gilded world of : Millennium Management plunging into the reality of running a small hedge fund start-up. Bressler and Bradford, former “cubs” of legendary hedge fund manager Israel “Izzy . . .

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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.

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