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.
Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) (LON:BARC), the large U.K. bank, is apparently having problems with data security. First came news that the island nation’s second-largest bank by assets is investigating the... Read More
With all the risks in the world, why is the stock market moving higher? JPMorgan’s Quantitative and Derivatives Strategy head Marko Kolanovic has the answers to this question, as... Read More
Regulatory Handcuffs Will 'Kill 30% Of Swiss Banks' by Matthew Allen, SwissInfo.ch
Up to 30% of Swiss banks will be smothered to death under the weight of increasingly draconian regulations... Read More
by Matthew Allen in Zurich, swissinfo.chÂ
April 3, 2014 - 11:00
Low Swiss cantonal tax rates have proved a magnet for multinational firms in the past few decades. But international pressure to reform... Read More
Michele Ragazzi's Giano Capital returned 1.9% for March, taking the fund's year-to-date performance to 1.7%. Since its inception, Ragazzi's flagship fund has produced a compound annual return of 7.8%.
According... Read More
Despite posting increased market share for the eight straight year in 2013, passively managed funds still have the potential to grow, note BMO analysts.
David J. Chiaverini and Richard Fellinger... Read More
In an interesting article, the WSJ discloses that low profile IKEA recently made public its internal valuation of the IKEA brand – approximately $11 billion, which led to a... Read More
China's Siren Song Of Speculation by Cook & Bynum
As China’s stock market continues to rise, the siren song of speculation is proving too much to resist for many in... Read More
China A-Shares - According to HSBC, the events of the past few weeks mean that it’s highly likely Chinese A-shares will be made part of the MSCI index family... Read More