If you want to enter the asset management industry, a diploma from University of Pennsylvania (Penn) might open more doors than a Harvard, Columbia or University of Chicago degree, a new report on Asset Managers’ college preferences shows. Penn with most alumni The report, produced by EVestment and published on the Wall Street Journal web site, shows that Penn has the most total alumni in the asset management industry, followed by Columbia University and the University of Chicago in fourth with 877 total alumni represented in the industry. Penn had 1,101 alumni represented. The list was rounded out with New…
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Mark Melin
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.