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Hedge Funds Notch Big "Win" In Argentina As Precedents Being Set

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Mark Melin
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A significant chapter in hedge fund history – perhaps the oddest, but also the most precedent setting – appears to be drawing to a close. As Argentina's 50-year old wunderkind finance minister, former JPMorgan banker Alfonso Pratt Gay, appears to have tamed the hedge fund monsters demanding payment on its foreign debt, a clear victory for the hedge funds is at hand – one that is already altering future courses of action.

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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.