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2018 Was A First For Hedge Funds And It Wasn’t Pretty — And The Bad Trends To Continue In 2019, Says Barclays Prime Brokerage

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Mark Melin
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The hedge fund industry had its challenges in 2018, a Barclays report on the topic reveals. Not only was performance negative again, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Index down 4.5%, but for the first time in ten years overall assets declined – the first time this combination has happened in a decade.

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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.