S&P Agrees To Massive Fine While Masterminds Keep Bonuses

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Mark Melin
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The derivatives problems that led to the 2008 crash and resulting “great recession” are still in play today, as an omni potent force controls In 2008 Standard & Poors (S&P) was at the center of rating investment products in which they reportedly did not investigate critical risk information. The risk of loan default was apparently concealed or difficult to obtain from those packaging what were known by certain industry professionals at the time to be toxic investment assets, resulting in economic hardship for the entire world.  At long last this issue with S&P has been settled with the U.S. Department of…

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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.