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. Hedge funds like tech names such as Apple Computer, Microsoft, Direct TV Hedge funds and mutual funds also have differing opinions on individual names in media and information technology stocks, the report noted. Popular names among the hedge fund set include Apple Computer, Microsoft, Yahoo…
Goldman Notes Similarities, Divergences In Hedge Fund, Mutual Fund Portfolios
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.