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Platt's BlueCrest Returning Assets To Customers

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Mark Melin
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Citing a changing hedge fund land scape, lowered fees and fund profitability and a desire to manage money without significant constraint, the $8 billion hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management is going the way of SAC Capital and becoming a family office to manage its own money. In an email sent to investors and reviewed by ValueWalk, Michael Platt, the fund’s founder, said investors should receive all their money near the end of the first quarter 2016, with distributions starting in January 2016.

Platt's BlueCrest Returning Assets To Customers
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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.