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.
Specialty chemical company Ashland Inc. (NYSE:ASH) will sell its Ashland Water Technologies to a fund managed by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in a transaction valued at approximately $1.8 billion.
Ashland's move anticipated by... Read More
As part of Merk's in-house research we regularly evaluate a consistent set of charts covering the economy, equities, fixed income, commodities and currencies. The aim is to keep our... Read More
As a new security threat was revealed this morning that illustrated the growing security vulnerability with cell phones, a new Bank of America survey found we are using our... Read More
Weight Loss vs. Investment Returns by Matt Brice, The Sova Group
Most things in life are weekly or monthly. Â Think about that for a moment. Â Most people receive a... Read More
Thanks to the recent market dislocations, the complex municipal market offers attractive opportunities for strong returns, notes Guggenheim.
B. Scott Minerd and the team at Guggenheim point out volatility induced... Read More
Moves are underway to place control of a key piece of plumbing inside the stock market in the hands of an exchange that regulators have called into question as... Read More
Quality Investing: Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term is a new book authored by Lawrence Cunningham, Torkell T. Eide and Patrick Hargreaves, which outlines the investment philosophy... Read More
NCAV Stocks: Learn From Ants On How To Be A Better Value Investor by Victor Wendl, Wendl Financial
Stanford University Professor Deborah Gordon spends her days analyzing the behavior of harvester ants that populate the dry... Read More
As Barclays PLC (NYSE:BCS) (LON:BARC) agrees to settle record fines for rigging markets,  and the firm’s litigation provisions increased 142% in 2013, it nonetheless found the courage to provide its... Read More
Bitcoin Transaction Initiated From Fed Offices, For The First Time by Caitlin Long, Foundation For Economic Education
Blockchain technology is maturing very quickly
Some remarkable things are happening in the bitcoin/blockchain... Read More