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Ellington Says 2008 Crash Set To Repeat In High Yield Credit, Buy CDS

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Mark Melin
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Ellington Management Group looks at causation of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and sees the same pattern of behavior at work in the next asset bubble in high yield corporate debt. The hedge fund that successfully identified and invested during the last global financial crisis has a new trade in credit default swaps, according to a hedge fund strategy report reviewed by ValueWalk and distributed to institutional investors.

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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.