It must be an adjustment for Jack Rivkin to go from being chief investment officer at equity-heavy, fundamentally driven investment firm Neuberger Berman to holding the same position for one of the larger algorithmic fund managers, Altegris Advisors, where instead of evaluating price to book ratios he finds himself in an alternative investment shop more inclined to consider margin to equity or win size relative to downside deviation. In his new capacity, Rivkin stuck to his old traditions and produced a yearly perspective piece. In his “Year Ahead” forecast, Jack Rivkin, as if unshackled from the equity world of smiles…
Jack Rivkin Says QE Has Done Its Job, Watch For Oil Volatility
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.