Paul Singer Sees European Union Disintegration, Brexit Just The Start

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Mark Melin
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With the Italian referendum approaching that might jeopardize Italy’s inclusion in the European Union, and followed by elections in France and Germany, Elliott Management’s Paul Singer thinks the economic and currency union is “unsound.” The European banks, which have “tens of trillions of dollars of opaque derivative positions,” is resulting in a bailout situation that is nothing more than “insanity upon insanity,” the hedge fund wrote in a third quarter letter to investors reviewed by ValueWalk.

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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.