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.
In their recent episode of the VALUE: After Hours Podcast, Taylor, Mitchell, Brewster, and Carlisle discussed Deep Survival And The Fear Of Losing Money. Here’s an excerpt from the... Read More
Whitney Tilson presented his short thesis on Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE:LL) at the Robin Hood Investors Conference last Friday. From the looks of it, this is going to... Read More
It has been a challenging twelve moqnths for the San Mateo County, California pension fund. With market volatility the rule rather than the exception, and international, domestic and emerging... Read More
Crispin Odey's flagship hedge fund strategy, Odey European Inc., which Odey established in 1992, appears to be having another bad year.
According to a copy of the Odey International Fund's... Read More
The topic of wealth inequality has been widely discussed over the past few years as quantitative easing has helped improve the fortunes of the world’s richest while doing little... Read More
Thanks to GDP growing 53% higher today as compared to the pre-GFC peak, buy-backs are now very much a developed-market phenomenon, note Citi analysts.
Markus Rosgen and Yue Hin Pong... Read More
Martin Whitman is a legendary value investor and founder of Third Avenue Management.
Over the years, Martin Whitman has gained a reputation for his contrarian investment strategy and devotion to the school... Read More
Outspoken progressive and 2020 presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren wants to impose a 2 percent “wealth tax” on every American with $50 million or more in assets to pay for... Read More
April 15, 2016
By Steve Blumenthal
“Seemingly logical, but as I’ve pointed out in recent years – not working very well because zero and negative interest rates break down capitalistic business... Read More
European credit markets no longer makes any sense
The European Central Bank’s extended quantitative easing programme attracted criticism from the start as many analysts believed such a QE bazooka would... Read More