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Some Funds Still Like The Face To Face Touch

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Mark Melin
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In a digitally connected world where people are increasingly avoiding human contact, Bienville, a $1.4 billion alternative asset manager, has found success by moving in a different direction. The New York-based fund is unique from several perspectives. Its various hedge fund options are not delineated based on strategy type, as is the common categorization, but rather opportunity set. When it finds an idea suitable for its audience of endowment or family office investment managers, it likes to take investors to the region, have them meet government officials and corporate CEOs face to face as they engage with the hedge...

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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.