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William Blair: 22 Answers To Your Questions On Alternative Investing

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Mark Melin
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Alternative investments offer different sources of return to better manage risk, William Blair noted in a white paper titled Read and Learn Alternative Investing, as it answered 22 questions about the topic and investing in its Macro Allocation fund.

In a portfolio allocation, the report recommends funding from alternatives should come from the sector which it most logically matches. For instance, high growth hedge funds might be logically funded from the equity portion of a portfolio.  Fixed income funds might be funded from the bond section of the portfolio, the white paper suggests.

William Blair: 22 Answers To Your Questions On Alternative Investing

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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.