After a hectic year of investor defections and humbling losses, hedge fund manager John Paulson lost a valuable market strategist. Last Friday, Samantha Greenberg, a partner at the $16.2 billion hedge fund Paulson & Co., announced she was leaving the firm, Reuters hedge fund journalist Lawrence Delevingne first reported. The move is interesting on several levels: Paulson has struggled with high volatility since his spectacular 2007 bet on the housing bubble. But more than Paulson, Greenberg is herself a story. She is among a statistically rare group of women who have found success in hedge fund money management, and she in…
As Greenberg Leaves Paulson & Co., Watching Long/Short Strategy Development Most Interesting
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.