Value In Beat Up Alternative Asset Managers?

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Mark Melin
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RBC Capital Markets analysts Kenneth Lee and Mark Dwelle look at the beat up world of asset management and like some of what they see. The list of problems facing  traditional asset management firms  is deep and well-known. In a world where the Department of Labor reached above the US Securities and Exchange Commission to develop a fiduciary rule for recommending investments that limit a firm’s profitability, computer-based “robo-advisers” threaten to make human asset advisers obsolete at a time when Eugene Fama categorized portfolio management as a part-time job. Yet in such a hostile environment, hidden value inside the asset…

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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.