As Soros Fund Management Reduces Macro Bets, Robert Soros Starts His Own Fund

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Mark Melin
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Soft brexit, UK, Soros, May 2017 hedge fund letters Q1 letters

Just like a great athlete makes playing sport looks easy, so, too can investment managers make great fundamental predictions and resulting profits look easy. George Soros making his historic bet against the British pound, the trade that “broke the Bank of England,” was one such amazing feat. What made him stand out, however, was his ability to repeat macro prediction success throughout his career. Many fund managers find making that big macro bet on a prediction can be a non-repeatable event, as fund manager John Paulson proved after his major 2008 win that has yet to prove repeatable to scale….

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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.