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New Entrant Jumps To Lead As HSBC Hedge Fund Performance Races To The Yearly Finish

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Mark Melin
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With the race to finish at the top of the HSBC Hedge Weekly coming to a yearly close, a major shift has taken place on the leader board. A long short hedge fund with an intermittent record of appearing on the HSBC list has taken a commanding lead while a much watched bio-tech fund that was previously in the spotlight tumbled while a traditional commodity trend follower has emerged in the top five during a market environment that doesn’t necessarily favor managed futures strategies.

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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.