Balyasny Asset Management isn’t your standard long-only hedge fund drone. CIO Dmitry Balyasny likes to go short when the market warrants it and he seems to “get it” in regards to algorithmic probability concepts such as mean reversion, supply and demand momentum and various market environments. Balyasny combines this knowledge with strong fundamental macro considerations, which dominate his investment decision making process. This is perhaps why his assets under management have swelled, as sources have indicated he has benefited from hedge fund asset defections in SAC Capital and Paulson, to name a few. Balyasny’s Atlas Enhanced Fund, with unusually low historical volatility, delivered…
Balyasny Asset Management Up 12% Through November Is Shorting Energy
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.