HighPerformance Managed Futures: The New Way to Diversify Your Portfolio,Used

Managed futures can no longer be ignored, particularly considering today's highly volatile stock market. HighPerformance Managed Futures provides invaluable insight into an asset class that has performed independently of the stock market for over thirty years. I feel that Mark's book is a mustread for astute investors and financial advisors. The book contains compelling evidence and justification for the inclusion of managed futures in an over all portfolio.'Robert Boschnack, Chairman, Vision Financial Markets LLC'HighPerformance Managed Futures gives all investors critical insights into an innovative style of investing that can no longer be misunderstood.'Michael W. Covel, bestselling author, Trend Following and The Complete Turtle Trader'Once again, during times of crisis, managed futures has delivered as an investment. HighPerformance Managed Futures is a mustread for qualified investors and financial adviders.'John Sundt, Ceo, Altegris Investments'Managed futures is one of the world's noncorrelated asset classes and should be considered in any modern portfolio. HighPerformance Managed Futures shows investors how to succed in this arena and does so in a logical and interesting format.'Scott Slutsky, author, Master of the Futures and The Complete Guide to Electronic Trading Futures, Managing Director, Global Service Division PFGBEST; Board of Directors, CME Group, Inc. PAC'Mark Melin has written an authoritative and insightful book on managed futures. All investors who seek to diversify portfolio risk should have this on their bookshelf.'Dr. Hossein Kazemi, PhD, CFA; Program Director, Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association; Editorial Board, The Journal of Alternative Investments; Professor of Finance, University of Massachusetts AmherstIn HighPerformance Managed Futures: The New Way to Diversify Your Portfolio, Mark Melin, a veteran of the managed futures industry, updates a Nobel Prizewinning investment method, guiding readers through investing in managed futures programs, where experienced money managers invest client assets in markets as diverse as metals, grains, soft commodities, energy, equity indexes, interest rates, foreign currency, and U.S. government bonds.Many of today's investors are betrayed by either shortterm thinking or another of Wall Street's mantrasbuy and hold. HighPerformance Managed Futures exposes market myths, while also detailing how managed futures can help investors achieve meaningful asset diversification.What is Your financial adviser not recommending and why not? Managed futures. And, probably because he or she either lacks an understanding of the asset class or because managed futures offer true diversificationand a truly diversified portfolio can be timeconsumingit means much more work for them.And, as you'll come to discover in HighPerformance Managed Futures: The New Way to Diversify Your Portfolio, what makes the asset class truly unique is its relative noncorrelation to the stock market and the economy, which is especially important in today's world in which global markets are more tightly correlated than at any other time in history.Managed futures has been described as 'mutual fund'like programs investing around the world in commoditiesoil, gold, corn, or wheatand financial futuresinterest rates, foreign currency, or stock indexes. Investments can even take place in pollution and weather futures. The asset class has no geographic or timebased investment limitation, and, unlike stock mutual funds, strategies can be long, short, or marketneutral. And, unlike hedge funds, managed futures can be transparent, liquid, and tighly regulatedinvestor protections that should be used as a national template.What your financial adviser doesn't knowor isn't telling youcan hurt your portfolio. With government debt at an alltime high and the U.S. dollar's dominant status in question, there's never been