Investors pulled $21 billion in June from hedge fund managers, with those most impacted falling in the equity long / short category, a Bloomberg Brief report pointed out. With hedge funds in a drawdown, now is that time that “cubs” are emerging from under the wings of larger managers to set up their own funds, fund of funds manager Protégé Partners observes, who looks to niche strategies to find noncorrelation. Long / short equity funds hardest hit by asset outflows Long / short equity funds were the hardest hit by the hedge fund withdrawal, with just under $10 billion being…
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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.