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Balyasny Team Up 7.15% In 2014; Speculates About Yellen

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Mark Melin
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The year 2014 closed with a soft, comfortable ending for investors. But 2015 got off to a “rollicking start” as “market volatility surges,” a January 15 research note from Balyasny Asset Management observed.

Many quantitative investment analysts along with the U.S. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Stability have warned about 2015 being volatile, and Balyasny’s research authors Colin Lancaster and Ryan McCort are witness to what many in the alternative investment space have warned is coming.

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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.