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Rothschild, Despite 'Power And Influence' Has Rough Q1

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Mark Melin
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After generating 13% performance in 2013, Rothschild's New Court fund fell behind global equities, dropping -0.2 in the first quarter of 2014, according to an investor letter reviewed by ValueWalk. Odd for a banking reputation that conspiracy theorists claim controls the financial world.

“This time it is different” is red flag

Expressing a degree of doubt in the current economic environment, Mark Kary, head of Rothschild's UK Wealth Management division, displayed a skeptical dose of traditional wisdom.  “Whenever asset prices are rising, investors often get caught up with the latest popular fashions or theories about why ‘this time it’s different’,” he wrote in their fourth quarter investor report.  “Here, the valuation of assets (and the price you pay for them) is...

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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.