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.
Shareholders: Executive Pay Reform Too Limited by Matthew Allen, swissinfo.ch
Small shareholders still face a raw deal despite new laws giving them a greater say in the running of Swiss... Read More
China's banking system is the largest in the world as measured by profits –according to a new report from Ronit Ghose, an analyst at Citigroup. Chinese total bank landing was... Read More
BlackStar Funds: The Capitalism Distribution via The Idea Farm
39% of stocks had a negative lifetime total return
(2 out of every 5 stocks are a money losing investment)
18.5% of stocks... Read More
According to a recent study, blogs and social media have become a more important source of information for financial professionals, but subscription syndicated services like Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters... Read More
By Investment Underground
Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) is the most widely recognized oil company in the world. By industry standards, it is a behemoth. The market cap of Exxon is $386.96 billion. By... Read More
FORECASTS & TRENDS E-LETTER
by Gary D. Halbert
August 6, 2019
Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc
By The White House from Washington, DC [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsIN THIS ISSUE:
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Following are excerpts from the unofficial transcript of CNBC interviews on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” this morning live from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, including: U.S. Department of... Read More
Jordan Giancoli of Kerrisdale Capital, InvestPitch presentation produced by sumzero and Institutional Investor on the long case for Dongbu Insurance Co., Ltd. (KRX:005830).
Also see: Joshua Kennedy of Sonian Capital... Read More
In my last article I shared the strategies of three famous value investors. Each investor had one shared theme: focus on downside protection.
Q3 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences and... Read More
Muddy Waters and NQ Mobile Inc (NASDAQ:NQ) have been involved in a back-and-forth scuffle which is becoming more interesting by the day. Carson Block, founder of the research firm, broke the... Read More