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.
An odd returns dispersion has occurred over the past months, a Credit Suisse report notes. Hedge funds generally had difficulty in August and September as the stock market faltered... Read More
Published on May 21, 2016
Morgan Housel joins us to talk about 3 common (and peculiar) traits that wealthy people tend to share.
Listen in to find out why the hosts... Read More
Leucadia National 2015 Annual Meeting Notes thanks to a reader for sending - looks like was also posted on The Motley Fool
I recently attended the Leucadia National Annual Meeting in... Read More
And the Winner Is…A Comparison of Valuation Measures for Equity Country Allocation
Adam Zaremba and Jan Jakub Szczygielski
Journal of Portfolio Management
A version of this paper can be... Read More
At the end of March, the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett was interviewed by CNBC's Becky Quick at the GateHouse Hands Up For Success Summit.
Q4 hedge fund letters, conference,... Read More
Are Mutual Funds Active Voters? via SSRN
Peter Iliev
Pennsylvania State University - Department of Finance
Michelle Lowry
Drexel University
April 15, 2014
Review of Financial Studies, 2015
Abstract:
Mutual funds vary greatly in... Read More
By Burgundy Asset Management
If you are at all familiar with Burgundy, likely you have heard time and again that we invest in “quality” companies when the share prices of... Read More
With over 43 pages of text, the Berkshire 50th anniversary letter cannot be summed up easily. Nevertheless, in this two part article there are a selection of key quotes from the... Read More