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.
Blue Tower Asset Management commentary for the second quarter ended June 30, 2019.
Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc
The Blue Tower Global Value strategy returned 6.5% net of fees... Read More
The investing world is full of noise. Investors are inundated with a constant drumbeat of information, from the financial media, Wall Street, and even their own advisors.
Companies and fund... Read More
Europe's broad FTS Eurofirst 300 share index tumbled after the Bank of England minutes were released from new Governor Mark Carney's first meeting.
Surprising news—all nine policymakers at the Bank of... Read More
We’ve just been reading Seth Klarman’s latest speech at the Harvard Business School. During the speech Klarman provides some great insights into the problems with a short-term orientation in... Read More
Long / short strategy appears positioned for difficult markets as short exposure gains on long exposure
One of the funds with significant exposure to former momentum stock Tesla is Parus... Read More
Hedge fund commitments from US public pensions total $12.5bn during 2020 with net $1.7bn of flows
Q4 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more
HFM Insights' latest report covers US pensions... Read More
There's no denying that Warren Buffett is one of the greats in the world of value investing, but achieving only a fraction of his success can seem like a... Read More
Warren Buffett’s annual letters are known for his wisdom on investing and many other topics. In the 2018 letter that was published last weekend, the following six insights stood... Read More