Balyasny Team Up 7.15% In 2014; Speculates About Yellen

The year 2014 closed with a soft, comfortable ending for investors. But 2015 got off to a “rollicking start” as “market volatility surges,” a January 15 research note from Balyasny Asset Management observed. Many quantitative investment analysts along with the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Stability have warned about 2015 being volatile, and Balyasny’s research authors Colin Lancaster and Ryan McCort are witness to what many in the alternative investment space have warned is coming. Balyasny Asset Management: Guess the Fed interest rate hike date Lancaster and McCort then engage as participants in the exciting hedge…