Hedge fund investor optimism abounds about 2017, a Deutsche Bank survey of institutional asset allocators reviewed by ValueWalk revealed. But there are decided trends in strategy targeting and, while some allocators are missing their absolute returns targets, they are on the money in their volatility mitigation practices. Hedge fund investor optimism: hedge funds will outperform in 2017 While 84% of respondents to the Deutsche Bank survey reporting positive returns performance in 2016, only 24% of those reported returns over 5%. The SPX, an ETF proxy for the S&P 500, delivered 9.54% returns over the same period and is up 5.57%…
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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.