Performance is a “lousy tool” to pick hedge funds, Morningstar’s Maciej Kowara told an audience of financial advisors eager to understand their rating system. Comments from Morningstar analysts Kowara and Jeff Ptak, the firm’s global director of manager research, pointed away from the firm’s star rating system as a predictive model and come in the wake of a critical 2017 profile in the Wall Street Journal.
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.
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