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Larry Robbins Talks Fourth Dimension As He Looks At Bond Hedge To Equities

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Mark Melin
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Hedge fund manager Larry Robbins long stock book was up a stunning 18.37 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, a feat likely to give any hedge fund manager cheer. The temporary issue for Robbins is that his short equity book was down 12.82 percent over a similar period of time, leaving him with respectable yet not blockbuster 5.29 percent quarterly returns, according to a Glenview Capital Management investor letter reviewed by ValueWalk.

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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.