Credit Fund Outflows With a rate hike now in the rear view mirror, markets will look to determine if Goldman Sachs is once again correct in its rate hike predictions – the bank expects several subsequent rate hikes after it accurately predicted the December hike – or if the Fed is going to be truly “data dependent” and ease off the trigger until after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. It is in this environment that watching credit fund flow trends becomes increasingly interesting. Equity funds continued to receive inflows while long-only commodity funds saw a continued contraction as did emerging market…
Nightmare Is Not Over As Credit Fund Outflows Continue
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.