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Skybridge Moves Away From Activist Hedge Funds

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Mark Melin
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Stung by a strategy that was significantly down last year and is a sector generating losses this year as well, Ray Nolte, chief investment officer at SkyBridge Capital, could be looking to get ahead of the hedge fund returns curve and move into more consistent forms of revenue generation.

Nolte is taking Skybridge’s $12.3 billion under management and tapering off the fund of fund’s relationship with activist and event-driven hedge fund strategies, shifting toward structured credit strategies, a Bloomberg Brief report notes.

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Activist hedge funds down again in 2016, Skybridge looks at other options

Nolte told Bloomberg’s Simone Foxman that in the fourth quarter of 2015 and in 2016 they “shifted to...

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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.