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.
The Oakmark Global Select Fund returned 2% for the quarter ended December 31, 2014, outperforming the MSCI World Index’s 1% return. For the calendar year, the Fund returned 3%,... Read More
NY Fed President William Dudley said perhaps the market over weighted the likelihood of specific circumstances; and James Grant, Grant's Interest Rate Observer editor, provides perspective.  Grant mentioned these comments and his thoughts on gold in... Read More
Trying to understand China’s various asset bubbles is a full-time job. The latest bubble has emerged in the China property market where some regions have reported home price growth... Read More
As market correlations diverge, a subtle hedge fund performance shift is continuing to take place, the most recent HSBC Hedge Weekly performance report shows. The fund now at the... Read More
Hotchkis & Wiley Fund commentary for March 2015, titled "Active vs. Passive Equity Investing."
"Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally"
John... Read More
Citing a variety of interviews with former colleagues and secret police documents, documentary paints unfaltering picture of the man who is threatening Ukraine and the west
Russian President  Vladimir Putin... Read More
One of the value investing firms that we follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb (RCG), the investment adviser best known for managing the... Read More
Communication scholars have produced a large body of work on the acquisition of knowledge (see, e.g., Hwang & Jeong, 2009). Far less attention has been directed toward exploring knowledge... Read More
Reality Check: Accounting Alerts Every Investor Should Know by Olstein Funds
The 1998–2000 bubble market, followed by the market crash with its poster child, Enron, created a political and media... Read More
FPA Crescent Fund commentary for the year ended December 31, 2016.
2016 Hedge Fund Letters
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Dear Shareholders:
FPA Crescent Fund - Performance
The markets continued to move higher in the fourth quarter... Read More