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.
Parus Finance has been paring back its long positions over the last half year, first taking profits after 2013’s incredible run and then reacting to the correction in February... Read More
Seth Klarman is the author of the 1991 now legendary book on value investing, The Margin of Safety, and also manages the Boston-based value hedge fund Baupost. Over the... Read More
International value partnership Acacia Capital, struggled to match its benchmark performance in 2018. The $737 million investment partnership, managed by Peter Kinney, lost -9.86% on a net basis for... Read More
Looking to have a happy, non-violent relationship with that special someone? Smoke marijuana together a recently released study says.
Marijuana influenced couple unlikely to abuse one another
A new study released... Read More
O'Reilly Automotive Is Primed For Growth
The auto parts aftermarket space has been one of the market’s best-performing sectors since the financial crisis. Indeed, despite the industry’s relatively dull business... Read More
Emerging market funds have seen a huge spike in interest from investors so far this year, thanks to renewed confidence in the global economy. Emerging market equity funds are... Read More
CS: S&P 500 Overseas Cash Now Exceeds $3 Trillion
At least $750 billion in cash & nearly $2.3 trillion in earnings from S&P 500 companies is parked overseas according... Read More
This is a special guest post by Robert R. Johnson, Ph.D., CFA, CAIA . He is a full professor of finance at the Heider College of Business at Creighton... Read More
MSCI’s Oleg Ruban uses the Barra Integrated Model to run stress tests for the impact of rising Japanese Government bond yields on different asset classes in his study, “Stress... Read More