14Feb

Hedges Cost Canyon Capital Absolute Returns Performance

The battle over hedge ratio can be a fund manager’s nightmare. This is because there is seldom a right answer. When Canyon Capital Advisors looks with hindsight on the fourth quarter, it was the hedges that cost them absolute returns. Coming into the new world order that appears to be brewing across the world, Canyon highlights two words to describe the current market environment: Volatility and Fragility. In a February 9th 2017 fourth quarter letter to investors . . .

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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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