With nearly $1.2 trillion in assets held by U.S. family offices, these typically secretive entities are starting to venture out on their own and team up to make direct investments that were once only the preserve of the hedge funds they invested in. The trend of family offices pooling their resources with others of their ilk, sharing secretive information and making investments in everything from new start-ups and private equity buyouts to large cap stocks is growing, but it is too early in the trend to determine analyze from their new partnerships. A Bloomberg Brief article by Margaret Collins noted…
Family Offices, Like Pension Funds, Develop Appetite for Direct Investing
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.