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.
Activists publicly targeted 12 Israel-headquartered companies in the past 18 months, as many as in the previous three years.
The maturing Israeli stock market has led to an influx of... Read More
HSBC Global Research revised down its global growth forecast to 2.0 percent for 2013 and 2.6 percent for 2014, according to Stephen King, HSBC's chief economist, and Madhur Jha,... Read More
Earlier this week, the billionaire investor Charlie Munger took part in a virtual interview hosted by the California Institute of Technology on December 14th 2020.
Q3 2020 hedge fund letters,... Read More
Vltava Fund letter to investors for the second quarter ended JUne 30, 2019, titled, "Recessions."
Q2 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc
“Economic growth has been going on rather too long... Read More
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is facing a class-action lawsuit in Europe that could bring Facebook’s lack of privacy protection into focus.
Facebook violated Europe privacy laws by participating in NSA's spying... Read More
Fashion and luxury goods peddler Burberry Group plc (LON:BRBY)Â saw retail revenues in its first quarter rise far faster than the market had been expecting.
Retail revenue advanced 21 percent to... Read More
The US is entering historic territory in its blusterous negotiations with North Korea and discussion of a potential Nuclear War with North Korea, a Bernstein report notes. Wondering if... Read More
by Charles Skorina
Yale, in their 2015 annual report issued this month has broken out their private equity allocation into two distinct segments: Leveraged Buyouts and Venture Capital.  See:
http://investments.yale.edu/images/documents/Yale_Endowment_15.pdf
This is the... Read More
Steel City Capital was up 9.3% net for the third quarter, bringing its year-to-date return to 12.8% net. The fund's benchmark, the Russell 2000 Index, fell 2.3% in the... Read More