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.
Between 1990 and 2012, of the more than 6,000 acquisitions with publicly available data, shareholders received a median 36% premium over the pre-announcement price creating roughly $1.7 trillion in... Read More
Imagine approaching a friend that you think is very wealthy and asking her to borrow ten thousand dollars for just one night. To entice her, you offer as collateral... Read More
Earlier this month, Greylock Capital Associates, an emerging markets hedge fund, filed for bankruptcy protection in New York assets under management dwindled from nearly $1 billion in 2017 to... Read More
Stifel analysts Alexander Reiss and Thomas Boyes have a look at closed-end funds for October 2013. Two funds trading at a discount from big value firms, GAMCO and Royce... Read More
The Biggest Myths About The Global Ultra Wealthy by Wealth-X
Wealth-X data dispels the biggest myths around the ultra wealthy population's net worth, education, giving and luxury assets.
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John Malone is redoubling his efforts to take control of the board of Sirius XM Radio Inc (NASDAQ:SIRI). The veteran investor and Liberty Media Corp (NASDAQ:LMCA), (NASDAQ:LMCB) head needs... Read More
Philip Falcone, CEO and chairman of Harbinger Capital Partners LLC, has been banned from running an insurance company in New York for seven years just as Harbinger Capital subsidiary... Read More
2017 was a stellar year for activist investment funds on aggregate – with the amount of capital invested swelling to more than double that of 2016. Globally, the segment... Read More
Interview with azVALOR: Former executives of Bestinver
azVALOR Asset Management was started in 2015 by former Bestinver Asset Management executives Alvaro Guzmán de Lázaro, Fernando Bernard and Beltran Parages, who left their... Read More