On Friday, December 21, Jim Cullen was looking at dreadful US stock markets and had a thought. With the S&P 500 down nearly 375 points on the month, the Chairman and CEO of Schafer Cullen Capital Management began looking towards a “turn for value,” one that might come from international and emerging markets.
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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