When looking at hedge fund performance trends, certain macro institutional strategies previously reported by ValueWalk appear to be at play in the HSBC weekly hedge fund category reporting numbers. For instance, emerging markets are a focal point for investors – in particular the debt markets. Looking at hedge fund category performance might explain this. The hot and often little discussed topic – the increasing ineffectiveness of central bank quantitative dopamine – is on display in Japan, a trend that emerges to degrees in hedge fund sector performance analysis. And then there is “market neutral” hedge fund performance, which is mixed,…
Hedge Fund Category Performance Reveals Interesting Trends
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.