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As Assets Leave, Passport Capital Adjusts Strategy, Looks To Cryptocurrency Craze to Boost AMD

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Mark Melin
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As assets continue to flee his hedge fund, John Burbank III looks for solutions. In a July 31 letter to investors reviewed by ValueWalk, nearly 63% of Passport Global’s assets under management, $480 million, walked out the door in the quarter, Passport's Q2 Letter reveals. Burbank is stoic as a pair of portfolio managers and the firm’s president leave the firm, making strategy adjustments and looking to unique investing opportunities, some of which might be driven by the cryptocurrency craze.

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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.