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.
Third Point Q2 2013 shareholder letter well have more coverage shortly.
Third Point’s opportunistic approach and robust framework allow us to search globally for attractive event-driven equity and credit opportunities... Read More
At the depths of the COVID crash, I began writing extensively about the equity market ramifications of unlimited fiscal and monetary stimulus. To start with, it was obvious that... Read More
Third Avenue: Telefonica Deutschland - The Transformation of European Telecoms
Telefonica Deutschland Holding AG (ETR:O2D) (FRA:O2D)Â is a unique way to participate in the dramatic transformation process under way in European... Read More
Being blamed for such things as the 2008 financial crisis, exacerbating the Greek credit crisis, and the culprit behind the recently reported $2 billion JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM)  loss hasn’t... Read More
Zions Bancorporation is down 3% in trading today as WTI crude falls to just $48 per barrel (Brent crude is at $51), and there are serious concerns that it... Read More
The US stock market has recovered since the pullback in late January and 30-year US Treasury bonds have rallied 50bp since the end of last year, but 10-year US... Read More
According to the Department of Justice, a number of luxury brands have been part of a worldwide "counterfeit and smuggling scheme."
Federal agents are in the midst of arresting more... Read More
Rough notes of Elizabeth Lilly, Allan MacDonald, Paradigm, and Mason Hawkins presentation from the Ben Graham Centre’s 2018 Value Investing Conference.
We will be adding more from both this and Sogn later... Read More
Trend-Following, Risk-Parity and the Influence of Correlations
Nick Baltas
UBS Investment Bank; Queen Mary, University of London; Imperial College Business School
October 12, 2015
"Risk-Based and Factor Investing", Quantitative Finance Elsevier/ISTE, 2015... Read More
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