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.
Albert Edwards, strategist at Societe Generale, commented that of all the moves seen in the last few weeks, perhaps the one that surprised me the most was the dramatic... Read More
Oil, Oil Everywhere
By Jeffrey Kleintop, CFA
For the third year in a row, the summer driving season kicked off with national gasoline prices at $3.67 per gallon, according to... Read More
Equity Is Cheap For Large Financial Institutions: The International Evidence
Priyank Gandhi
Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Hanno N. Lustig
Stanford Graduate School of Business; National Bureau of... Read More
Pershing Square hedge fund manager William Ackman and Valeant Pharmaceuticals CEO Mike Pearson are a match made in heaven.
$1 billion in paper profits after announcement made
Ackman must have pretty... Read More
The Fed And Lehman Brothers
Laurence Ball
Johns Hopkins University
July 2016
The Fed And Lehman Brothers - Introduction
On Monday, September 15, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. filed a bankruptcy... Read More
The number of casualties from the decision of Swiss National Bank to cease capping the nation’s currency is on the rise, and the damage is spreading from New York... Read More
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Q1 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more
"...seven years of college down the... Read More
Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES)Â today announced that, after consulting with its shareholders, it will separate the role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer after its Annual Meeting.
The oil company that is... Read More
Gold has taken a beating in the last couple of months, and predictably traders have jumped on the bandwagon - pushing net futures positioning to the shortest since the... Read More
The TT International DB Platinum hedge fund is holding a position that hurt them in September but could turn out to be a big winner in October.
TT International long... Read More