On January 16, as Dave Craver, Mala Gaonkar, Kelly Granat and Steve Mandel sending out the Lone Pine Capital letter to investors, the observed that the Long / Short hedge fund was “modestly less short” for several reasons. After a “poor fourth quarter,” where both long and shorts were hit, the Lone Pine investment team was looking for better days. What followed shortly after they sent the letter was a volatility-driven stock market price readjustment that would have benefited from that short exposure. Lone Pine’s investment products outperformed their respective market benchmarks in the fourth quarter. Lone Cypress was down…
Lone Pine Misses The Big Short
Mark Melin
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.