As an advocate for charter schools, Greenblatt is discovering that certain pension funds might have in their mandate a political litmus test in order to manage money Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management founder and political activist, might be looking at his Gotham Enhanced Return fund and its 17.05 percent return in the first two months of 2015 and scratching his head. How could it be that a fund manager considered a leader in the long / short equity space, might be turned down not due to fund performance, but politics? It appears that the political opinions of hedge fund managers,…
Joel Greenblatt Shunned By Teachers Union Over Charter School Support
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.