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.
One of the worst performing sectors of the market this year has been the offshore oil and gas drilling sector. A combination of oversupply and falling demand, has pushed... Read More
Conducting due diligence on hedge funds and other non-traditional investments costs much less than the damages associated with potential fraud or misrepresentation, a report from SwissAnalytics concluded.
One area of... Read More
At the end of July, P&G, one of the largest consumer goods companies, revealed that it had cut $100 million from its digital advertising budget with no noticeable impact... Read More
As the Newedge CTA index closed out October with a 1.6 percent gain – and is up over 8 percent on the year – Quality Capital Management (QCM) took... Read More
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decided not to explain why it didn’t file charges against anyone at Lehman Brothers, because it was afraid the public would find its... Read More
Balyasny Asset Management ended the year with double digit positive returns in all three of its strategies, according to an investor letter reviewed by ValueWalk.
Atlas Global generated the lowest... Read More
Bill Gates certainly isn’t the only rich philanthropist, but he has poured himself into the work in a way that others haven’t. After he stepped back from the day-to-day... Read More
Count the $3 billion Seminole Capital Management as yet another hedge fund that is blaming the odd quantitatively driven market environment for its troubles. The fund’s solution is to... Read More
ValueWalk’s Raul Panganiban interviews Henry D. Wolfe, The author of “Governance Arbitrage: Blowing Up the Public Company Governance Model to Maximize Long-term Shareholder Value“. In this part, Henry discusses... Read More
An audiobook of Berkshire Hathaway's letters to shareholders.
Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc, Also read Lear Capital: Financial Products You Should Avoid?
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