Goldman Sachs Notes Hedge Fund Difficulity – ValueWalk Premium
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23May2014

Goldman Sachs Notes Hedge Fund Difficulity

Hedge funds are essentially flat year to date and long short funds are posting negative -2% returns, the most recent Goldman Sachs hedge fund monitor noted, while the S&P 500 index is up nearly 2%.

What is working best, however, is not the long / short funds, but Goldman’s basket of VIP long trades and VIP short trades, which is up 4% year to date . . .

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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.

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