Energy Hedge Funds Get A Boost From Soaring Oil Prices

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Mark Melin
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Hedge fund performance in 2018 is itself a diversified mix. While the HFRI Fund Weighted is up a scant 0.41% year to date, there are individual outperformers and even strong sector performers making headway. Long / Short stock strategies, for instance, are finding opportunities as market prices start adjusting more rapidly. The gamma-based markets are contrasted with volatility arbitrage hedge funds, many of which are seeing the reality of a new VIX duration yield curve vexing. Volatility and options strategies had a strong April, the May 9 Evestment Hedge Fund Industry Performance Report shows. But the positive 1.07% in that…

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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.