As Baupost Waits For Market Uncertainty To Take Its Toll, Klarman”Spinoff” Off To Strong Start

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Actively managed hedge funds have a performance problem, fund manager Seth Klarman noted in a letter to investors first reported by Andrew Ross Sorkin in The New York Times. With hedge fund managers severely trailing major stock indexes from 2010 to 2015, Klarman looks to a flood of assets under management as causation for underperformance. The future of hedge fund management, however, might be taking shape right now with a Klarman “cub,” Miguel Fidalgo’s Triarii Capital, following in Baupost Group’s value-orientated, noncorrelated footsteps. [klarman] 2016 Hedge Fund Letters   Seth Klarman: Hedge funds seem like a failed product “To many,…

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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.