The world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, is currently in a dispute with The Wall Street Journal regarding its performance reporting and implications clients are lessening their commitment to the firm amid a performance “stumble” in August in the widely followed All Weather fund. This surrounds a succession plan at the top when, at the young age of 66, Dailo might have a few good years left in the engine and co-CEO Greg Jensen might have to put his ambitions to run the firm on hold. But in the end, does this highly unusual story of a truly radical transparency concept…
Unscrambling The Bridgewater Story And Issues With The Wall Street Journal
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.