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.
While some MF Global customers are slowly getting their money back, there appears to be a divide. According to The Wall Street Journal, Â not all customers are created equal.
Andrew... Read More
Venture capitalists are turning to one of the shadier parts of the internet for places to invest. A report written by Tesarah E. Needlemen and Spencer E. Ante in... Read More
With equity market valuations at relatively high levels, long / short strategies are increasingly finding opportunity on the short side of the market, a panel of portfolio managers noted... Read More
Longleaf Partners Funds' letter to shareholders for the fourth quarter 2014.
After strong returns across all the Longleaf Partners Funds in 2013, only the Small-Cap Fund in 2014 exceeded its... Read More
In business and trading, one has to go through hundred of documents and communications. In order to become a successful trader, entrepreneur or freelancer, the primary requirement is to... Read More
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) may have seen the last of Carl Icahn. The veteran hedge fund manager revealed in a regulatory filing today that he was calling an end to... Read More
On Friday, the day started with two patent claims by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) against Facebook. It wasn't anything new for the Internet company to make the assertions but in... Read More
Activist zealots, not much to report today. Our meager offering of activist new and stories is below. Taking tip at @activiststocks or email, and sign up for our daily... Read More
Following the news that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is looking to acquire local 3D sensor specialist Primesense, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) has made an Israeli acquisition of its own. According to... Read More
First, some fun facts regarding the Pareto distribution:
Business: the top few customers account for a bulk of the profits
Insurance: a small number of big claims account for... Read More