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Hugh Hendry Loses On Le Pen Trade; Goes All In On Four Bets

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Mark Melin
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There are certain alternative fund managers and derivatives analysts that take an unconventional look at the world. They express a desire for the deep understanding of risk, often looking at the ugly from the inside out. Eclectica Absolute Macro Fund manager Hugh Hendry, in an April letter to investors reviewed by ValueWalk, looks back at the French election and sees the bigger “fat tail” risk that was little discussed in the mainstream: What would happen if the wheels on the euro currency fell off.

Hugh Hendry and the Eclectica Absolute Macro Fund populist victory French election
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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.