Hedge fund alpha? What Alpha? Clearly not in long / short hedge funds in January and February.
A Credit Suisse report this morning noted an odd feat: The underperformance of the top 50 longs and shorts set a three year record in futility. Both long and short positions are under-performing in February, the report noted, which hasn’t happened since January 2013.
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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