Market Fund Flows Mirror Election Polling

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Mark Melin
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In a week in which the US Presidential election polling reversed sharply, favoring Donald Trump, there was also a related move among asset class fund flows, a Deutsche Bank report notes. In fact, many of the asset trends that had been established assuming a Clinton cake-walk to the Presidency witnessed negative outflows the previous week. Over the last two days, those trends mean reverted back to a Clinton victory dance. Fund flows reflect concern regarding a Trump victory last week In many respects, the sharp decline in the S&P 500 index that peaked October 24 at 2151 and then fell…

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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.

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