BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK), one of the largest asset managers, is expanding its alternative investment offerings to retail investors with a new fund of funds offering. BlackRock’s new fund includes diversity based on market environment The BlackRock Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund Investor A Shares (MUTF:BMMAX) includes a diversity based on market environment. The fund features one managed futures trend follower, QMS Capital Management, with another quantitative trader, Chicago-based PEAK6 Advisors LLC, running a relative value strategy, a statement from BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) revealed. The most significant strategy exposure in the fund is long / short fundamental stock investing, while Loeb King Capital…
BlackRock Offers New Multi-Manager Fund To Retail Investors
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.