The hedge fund industry had its challenges in 2018, a Barclays report on the topic reveals. Not only was performance negative again, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Index down 4.5%, but for the first time in ten years overall assets declined – the first time this combination has happened in a decade.
2018 Was A First For Hedge Funds And It Wasn’t Pretty — And The Bad Trends To Continue In 2019, Says Barclays Prime Brokerage
Mark Melin
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.