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Private Equity And Hedge Funds Targeted By AFL-CIO

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Mark Melin
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There is a movement among certain pension fund managers to question their investments, a Hedge Funds and Private Equity panel discussion in Washington DC Tuesday hammered out. As “short-termism” in fund manager thinking is used as a backdrop that is juxtaposed to long-term investment lock-ups, increasingly pension funds are questioning the lack of performance and investment strategies that are at odds with long-term economic prosperity.

Private Equity And Hedge Funds Targeted By AFL-CIO

Why are private equity firms locking up long term investments but executing short term strategies

Institutional investors are increasingly asking why it is that their money is locked up in...

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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.