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Water Investing Gets Even Hotter

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Mark Melin
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When hedge fund manager Michael Burry was looking for another investment after his “big short” using over the counter derivatives to benefit from the 2008 global financial crisis, it took patience and fortitude to fend off naysayers. After this investment, he was attracted to another investment with similar qualities. The investment he found with a potentially long-term time horizon was based on negative societal circumstance where the primary performance drivers were yet to be widely realized by “the consensus.” The investment manager famously featured in the “Big Short” movie landed on one investment: water.

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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.