Hedge funds and discretionary mutual funds are overweight health care and consumer discretionary stocks, a June 5 Goldman Sachs Kickstart portfolio strategy document notes, but hedge fund managers don’t necessarily see eye to eye with mutual fund managers on the energy sector.  Hedge funds are decidedly overweight the energy sector while mutual funds are underweight.
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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