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.
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The following are the notes from Maureen Farrell, Matt Levine and Josh Wolfe's presentation at UC Berkeley's 2020 Virtual Fraud Fest Conference. See our full coverage here.
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China's Yuan Devaluation: What You Need To Know by Brad McMillan, Commonwealth Financial Network
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By Steve Blumenthal
“We live at a time where the unthinkable has become common.”
— B. Scott Minerd, Managing Partner, Guggenheim Partners
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