Hedge funds are finally outperforming the S&P 500, a Morgan Stanley Prime Brokerage Global Hedge Fund Performance report reveals. This comes as well-known hedge fund managers such as Anthony Scaramucci says he expects hedge funds to see better days in the near future while “Mr. Momentum” Cliff Asness advises fund managers to “stop blaming others” for performance problems.
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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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