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.
Rough notes of Gregory Thomas' presentation from the Robin Hood Investors Conference 2018. Stay tuned for more from Robin Hood Investors Conference which took place on October 29, 2018... Read More
Billionaire Warren Buffett is an extremely philanthropic person, and so are his children, as they each have foundations. Peter Buffett's NoVo Foundation has invested in several funds with an... Read More
The 10th Annual New York Value Investing Congress takes place in New York on September 8th and September 9th 2014. ValueWalk will be providing coverage of the event- below is... Read More
All the volatility and market turmoil shook the returns of Pharo Macro Fund, down 2.1% in last month. The global macro hedge fund strategy is up 7.6% for the... Read More
China's FX reserves could fall to $2.8 trillion, the lower end of the IMF's recommended range within a few months, which could spark a tidal wave of speculative selling, forcing the... Read More
Europe's Credit Markets React To Brexit
The knee-jerk reaction to Brexit in the credit markets is similar to that as seen in the equity markets but has been exacerbated by... Read More
While the IMF is pushing for the Federal Reserve to delay its first rate hike until 2016, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is worried that there is far... Read More
By The Long Short Trader
It’s been just over 10 days since the US Presidential election, and I sense that many Americans – and market participants – are still in... Read More
China’s economy continued to contract in September as talk of trade negotiations with the Trump administration have cooled.
Q3 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc
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Most often Chinese economic... Read More
Waterstone Market Neutral Fund is ranking among the worst performing hedge funds of the year, according to returns taken from HSBC Hedge Weekly. The fund, which uses a convertible... Read More