Size Matters To Investors, Best Returns Found In Mid-sized Managers

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Mark Melin
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A Preqin study confirms what certain professional investors have long advocated: best results can be found in managers nimble enough to enter lightly traded markets and get in and out quickly and efficiently.  For aggressive investors, this often meant a portfolio focus on funds with under $1 billion in assets but selecting funds large enough to the point the business could sustain itself. Does fund size matter to investors? Of course it does In an article titled “Does Fund Size Affect Hedge Fund Performance?” author Selina Sy noted the most significant average returns were in the fund category from $100…

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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.