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Barclays: What? Me Worry? Get Into Risk Assets They Say

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Mark Melin
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“Few investors are seriously worried about another financial crisis,” a Barclays Global Outlook report states, blaring in the title that investors should “Stay the course on risk assets,” following previous research. While Barclays is downright positive, “many are now skeptical of the risk rally,” the concede in a March 23 Macro research report.

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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.