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Quants Prominent on 2017 Hedge Fund Rich List

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Mark Melin
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There are some striking trends in the Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine “Rich List,” a ranking of the top hedge fund managers based on the individual manager’s earnings. Not only is their total earnings down to an 11-year low, but the same type of strategies have continued to populate the top ten. The top hedge fund earners list comes out as hedge funds are off to a relatively positive start in 2017.

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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.