We’re witnessing a new trend in alternative investing, yet it is not being generally documented unless you read ValueWalk. New category for “hedge fund intimidation” That trend is hedge fund intimidation, a new category to sit alongside distressed arbitrage, managed futures, quantitative investing and volatility being traded as an asset class. In other words, those niche strategies typically uncorrelated to the stock market that often operate in the shadows, with even professional investors not understanding the intentionally designed “complications” that obfuscate how money is really made. But when you break down this new intimidation strategy much in the same way…
Did Buffett Tab Hedge Fund 'Intimidation' As A New Strategy Category?
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.