After Two Years Of Subdued Performance, Barnegat Showing Signs Of Life

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Mark Melin
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When considering the panoply of potential noncorrelated investments, allocators often turn to quantitative offerings and CTA strategies. But Hoboken, NJ-based Barnegat Fund Management is putting that notion to the test. The fixed-income relative value strategy violates many of the traditional rules that the strategy would imply as it exhibits almost no correlation to the bond or stock markets. After a few years of poor performance, the fund is back in 2017, up 15.17% after the second half, according to a fund document reviewed by ValueWalk. Barnegat Fund doesn’t look like a typical fixed-income trader It is difficult to simply categorize…

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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.