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Artko Capital Shows The Rewards Of Early Hedge Fund Investing

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Mark Melin
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Peter Rabover, portfolio manager at Artko Capital, is a new fund manager who has found alpha in niche markets.  The hedge fund reported 33.2% performance on the year by primarily investing in issues that are generally not widely known.

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But while the hedge fund’s early performance is notable, perhaps the firm’s niche approach to investing in areas where transparency is sometimes faint and facts obfuscated is where opportunity is found. Early hedge fund investing, particularly those with a niche strategy, can yield benefits to fund managers. Due to his small-cap focus, Artko finds niche opportunity in a market where institutional analyst coverage does not exist to the same degree. In other words, alpha can be found amid...

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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.