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Cocktail Party Conversation Starters for All Investors

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Mark Melin
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Heather Pelant, a personal investor strategist at Blackrock, has developed a list of five “cocktail party conversation starters” for the holiday season. BlackRock also sent out the advice on its twitter account:

— BlackRock® (@blackrock) December 19, 2014

Most of the semi-scripted conversations appear to paper over real problems that those involved in hedge fund risk management community might consider on their radar. Thus, I offer an alternative “five cocktail party conversation starters” is what might take place among hedge fund insiders whispering truth talk in-between egg nog and cold shrimp.

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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.