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JPMorgan: Hedge Fund Exposure After Election

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Mark Melin
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Hedge fund exposure to stock sectors and was adjusted after the US Presidential election, a JPMorgan Prime Brokerage survey shows. Immediately following the election, hedge funds could be seen making decided plays relative to stock sector categories which implied "Trump trades" as well as slightly adjusted leverage exposure, a JPMorgan Prime Brokerage report details.

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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.