Heather Pelant, a personal investor strategist at Blackrock, has developed a list of five “cocktail party conversation starters” for the holiday season. BlackRock also sent out the advice on its twitter account: — BlackRock® (@blackrock) December 19, 2014 Most of the semi-scripted conversations appear to paper over real problems that those involved in hedge fund risk management community might consider on their radar. Thus, I offer an alternative “five cocktail party conversation starters” is what might take place among hedge fund insiders whispering truth talk in-between egg nog and cold shrimp. cocktail party conversation starters Do you talk about…
Cocktail Party Conversation Starters for All 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.