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Brexit "Fiasco For Consensus Thinking," But Move Past It

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Mark Melin
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Looking at the Brexit issue, analysts at Kepler Cheuvreux think it is not just "a fiasco for consensus thinking," but also a statement on the entire investment year where oddity has been the watch word. The vote that the mainstream thought would never happen happened -- and the consensus of analyst opinion, the sheep point of view, all got it wrong. But more than just Brexit, the report notes a market environment change all should be aware of.

Madmen in Authority MSCI

While consensus was wrong on Brexit, treat it as a one off and look at the larger trends

"The two months that have elapsed since Brexit day allow us to clarify the...

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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.