Forbes Magazine is out with its list of the managers of Top Earning Hedge Funds. The list is replete with hedge fund names one might expect to see – Ray Dalio, James Simons, David Tepper, Ken Griffin. But looking at the list from a different angle raises the question: In the era of new fee agreements with the emphasis on beta market overperformance, will the top earning hedge fund managers have the same level of abundance if a new fee system is instituted? Some top Earning Hedge Funds fail to beat an S&P 500 benchmark, but their fund managers rake…
Forbes List Of Top Earning Hedge Funds Comes Amid New Fee Reality Shift
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.