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Clinton Group Sent Redemption Letter After "Disappointing" Performance Presentation

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Mark Melin
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It might have been a slightly uneasy, awkward feeling when the Clinton Group’s George Hall, a pension fund investment advisor, addressed the New Haven Police and Fire Retirement Fund meeting on July 27. This was before a market sell-off plunged the stock market to its worst August sell-off since Long Term Capital Management sparked a 1998 predicted disaster. And here it was, with the S&P 500 still clinging on to 2067 on July 27, Hall was explaining negative investing performance to the very retirees who put their lives on the line for the public.

 

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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.