Corzine Wants To Talk About MF Global, But Not Now

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Mark Melin
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Receiving a standing ovation at Fairleigh Dickinson’s Silberman College of Business in Madison, N.J. Thursday night, former New Jersey Gov. and U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine made his first public appearance since 2011. At his last public appearance, he repeatedly told the U.S. Congress he did not know where illegally transferred MF Global customer assets went. On this night, however, the former MF Global and Goldman Sachs chief executive was generally treated to softball questions from the student audience who likely have little, if any, knowledge of the incident the Commodity Futures Trading Commission termed “unprecedented.” Corzine sounded like a motivational speaker, lashed out at…

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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.