Swedroe Attacks Hussman over Risk Management, Relative Value Strategy

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Mark Melin
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In a new blog post, Larry Swedroe rips into John Hussman, a former economics professor at the University of Michigan and founder of the Hussman family of mutual funds, sometimes hitting below the belt. Hussman’s apparent sin is concern for market risk in the current US Federal Reserve stimulus driven economic environment. Larry Swedroe points out Morningstar’s rating for the mutual fund Telling his readers “to ignore his forecasts because they don’t have any value,” Swedroe pointed out that Morningstar gave the mutual fund a one star rating, which has led to 61 percent of funds not lasting another ten…

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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.