31Jan

After Being Flooded With Assets, Balyasny Explains Muted 2016 Performance

For Dmitry Balyasny, founder and Chief Investment Officer at Balyasny Asset Management, 2016 was a “roller coaster” that few could have anticipated. With the S&P 500 up 11.57% in 2016 via the SPX, Atlas Global subtracting -1.33% off performance on the year is a result of “challenges” the fund faced, a year-end letter to investors reviewed by ValueWalk said. Addressing disappointing performance in the wake of a nearly doubling in assets over a short period, Balyasny pointed to running a noncorrelated and a . . .

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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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