European hedge funds could be major beneficiaries of expected volatility, with some 52% of respondents to a recent ML Capital Asset Management survey saying they are planning on raising exposure to the alternative asset category. Trend in UCITs Growing The 13th edition of the quarterly ML Capital Alternative UCITS Barometer, published in the Opalesque UCITS publication, polled 60 institutional investors who collectively manage almost $95 billion “and today invest upwards of $20 billion into Alternative UCITS reflecting the widening of the investor base for regulated alternative products in Europe.” Those respondents range from insurance and pension funds to private…
Alternative UCITs Growing At Phenomenal Pace In Europe
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.