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Some Strange Trends Among 2017 Hedge Fund Returns

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Mark Melin
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From one perspective, there is an odd disparity in the force. Hedge fund returns in certain categories are experiencing fat tail correlation and return extremes when compared to players inside a particular category as well as compared to the category average itself. No better can this be seen than in the most formulaic of all hedge fund strategies, managed futures. Meanwhile, in the Long / Short category, a familiar name continues to have a strong year.

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Certain Categories Performance

Cantab's multi-strategy approach is finding the market environment conducive to outsized returns

During a year when the HSBC Hedge Weekly performance ranking shows the Managed Futures / Systematic category up a lethargic 1.34% --...

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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.