Skybridge Capital Hit Hard By Paulson Investment

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Mark Melin
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Skybridge Capital, one of the highest profile and most respected hedge fund investors in the world, had difficulty lately, namely in investments in the Event Driven hedge funds, which to which it had been reducing exposure for the past six to eight months. The fund also found difficulty investing in the Directional Equity and Macro funds, according to its March 2016 annual report reviewed by ValueWalk, but Relative Value hedge fund strategies in which it invested were positive on the year. Looking at the losses it is apparent why Skybridge might be tapering off exposure to event driven hedge funds,…

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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.