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.
This was just uploaded, but appears to be dated - if are not up to date - the latest on Herbalife - Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) Plans Expansion In China
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There is just too much excitement about growth of AUM in mutual fund industry and the rosy picture painted about future by extrapolating the data. But as Dhanjay at... Read More
What Is Going On With Baltic Dry Index?
Today, we are going to analyze a hot topic – Baltic Dry Index, which on 10 February reached a historic low of... Read More
NYSE A new proposal to change the definition of “bad trades” could have significant impact on investors, says a FactSet report, and could lead to unintended consequences.
"Aberrant" and "clearly... Read More
Sanjay Bakshi: Note to Myself on The Maggi Problem
H/T ValueInvestingWorld
When a great business encounters a huge but solvable, one-time problem, it might be a good chance to buy its... Read More
Placement Agents See Growing Demand From Private Capital Fund Managers by Preqin
More than half (54%) of funds closed in 2016 YTD employed a placement agent
Preqin’s latest research finds that... Read More
Emolument.com has analysed 1,640 London bankers' bonuses and asked how the recipients felt about the bonus amounts they received. Results show American banks still lead the remuneration race with the highest... Read More
Our final group of graphic sins looks at what can occur when the design dominates the data. These are special effects gone wild. Back in my early science days... Read More
Update 13:04 EST: The news that ex NSA Chief Michael Hayden was shot during the course of the incident at LAX appears to have been a hoax. The Globe... Read More
One of the value investor’s greatest tools is patience. Value investing by its very nature is a marathon, not a spirit and this has become increasingly apparent in today’s... Read More