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CSLA, Like Gundlach, Warns Of "Nasty Surprise" Amid Negative Rates

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Mark Melin
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Are markets headed for a nasty surprise?

While even some enlightened professional investors prefer to live in the world of passive delusion – actively trying to see no evil, hear no evil – the risk managers in the crowd, including CLSA, focus on logic and explore all primary probability paths. Good research – and journalism – is at its best when it follows the story where it leads and doesn't filter out the negative; it treats the audience like the intelligent people they are and assumes they can handle the truth.

Where this leads CLSA might not always a pretty spot, but for fiduciary-bound professional asset managers ignoring logical risk potential might be akin to falling short on a key duty.  In...

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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.