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.
There's been a lot of talk about how the travel industry will get back to normal in a world marred by COVID-19, but JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes has some... Read More
Friend & Foe: Better Living Through Social Science Research by Jonathan A. Knee, DealBook
Academic work in the social sciences often elicits puzzlement from those outside the scholarly realm. Even... Read More
As previously reported in ValueWalk, the International Monetary Fund has released a staff report on handling sovereign debt restructuring that the “holdout hedge funds” might not like.
The release of... Read More
Happy New Year! If you look at the stock market, 2019 was indeed a happy one. The S&P 500 index rose +29% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was... Read More
Tiger cub Andreas Halvorsen, co-founder and CEO of Viking Global Investors, called his returns for the first quarter mediocre, according to sources of Institutional Investor's Alpha. Despite gains on... Read More
Are Changes In The Interest Rates The Good Indicator Of The Market Movements? by Bargain Value
Today, we will focus on the macroeconomic connection between levels of interest rates and... Read More
Citi’s Global Quantitative Research team highlighted equities ranked by country attractiveness in their research note ‘Tactical Market Allocation – February 2014.’
The selection model covers countries for which ETFs are... Read More
With a Brazil investment, where is the bottom? “The situation in Brazil remains disquieting,” a recent investment letter from SPX Capital, a leading Brazilian hedge fund said. Brazil is... Read More
Needham Funds letter to shareholders for the first quarter ended March 31, 2015.
Dear Shareholders, Friends of Needham and Prospective Shareholders,
We are pleased to report results for the first quarter... Read More
If you’ve been keeping an eye on the performance of hedge funds and mutual funds over the past 12 months or so you will have noticed that one of the themes... Read More