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.
Carl Icahn's open letter to the Board of Directors of SandRidge Energy.
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Earlier this year, the Libyan Investment Authority sued Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) over $1.2 billion worth of derivatives trades made in early 2008. The LIA is alleging that Goldman... Read More
Focusing on fundamentals, tuning out noise, and practicing patience has worked for Morningstar's 2014 International-Stock Manager of the Year.
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In “You Might Like to Watch This Picture as Asset Prices Fall,” we discussed a composite indicator called thin-air spending power (TSP). We also promised that this chartbook would... Read More
Westport Q3 letter to shareholders
Dear Fellow Shareholder:
The U.S. equity markets posted broad-based returns for the third quarter despite a high level of uncertainty created by both the Federal Reserve's... Read More
Anyone who has been paying attention shouldn’t be surprised that Warren Buffett is no fan of highly speculative investments, so when he said that “the idea that [Bitcoin] has... Read More
As Defined Contribution (DC) plans have taken center stage in many retirement systems throughout the world,2 so too have pre-packaged multi-asset solutions. Target Date Funds (TDFs), Life Cycle Funds,... Read More
Aristotle Capital Management letter for the month of October 2017, titled, 1001 Uses For Windmills.
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Muddy Waters is short Noble Group Limited (“Noble”). Noble seems to exist solely to borrow and burn cash. According to Bloomberg, Noble has been free cash flow positive only... Read More
Female hedge fund managers have a decidedly more compelling risk return profile than do their male counterparts, a new study shows.
The key returns demographic, most coveted by institutions, has... Read More