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.
Chinese Hedge fund - As looser regulation has swept across China, new hedge fund launches are surging at an unheard of pace. This all comes at a time when... Read More
Margate Capital, the tech-focused hedge fund founded by ex Paulson & Co employee Samantha Greenberg, had a mixed 2017. Even though the Tech sector was the best performing sector in... Read More
It has been a whirlwind week for Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and their shareholders. The Treasury Department released its plan last Friday, and then on Monday, a court ruled... Read More
With growing interest in alternatives, Laven Financial Services has released a white paper on how to do operational due diligence on private equity funds. PE is unique because its... Read More
While many fund managers and institutional investors might be taking a December holiday vacation, the tendency is for this to be one of the most positive months of the... Read More
June was a reasonably uneventful month for Michael Rothenberg. The $696 million portfolio he manages at Moab Partners, L.P., which was up 1.07% on the month, has been relatively... Read More
Apparently it is not just World War Z where ferocious zombies suck the blood out of innocent bystanders—I don't know the plot, so I am just guessing based on... Read More
Citi Analysts William R Katz, Neil Stratton and Steven J Fullerton estimate how Broker Dealers and Asset Managers could fare in the third quarter of 2013 in their research... Read More
There are few micro-cap fund managers that can match the caliber of James Boucherat and David LaSalle of Pacific View Asset Management.
Their strategy is simple: find self-funding companies trading at an... Read More