A Big List of Alternative Investment Folks on Twitter
Here’s our compilation of people and firms currently out there on twitter providing the latest insight, humor, debate, and news on investments – especially the alternative kind:
YTD Asset Class Scoreboard
Well that was a lot of red in July, with all of the asset classes we track showing negative performance behind stock markets’ first losing month in the past six. The big loser, commodities, which fell over 5% as energy markets sold off and the big sell off in grains through the month of July, making Commodities the only asset class negative on the year.
Mama Said Knock You Out
Well, we bet Emil Van Essen, the quirky (in a good way) Canadian who runs the self named Emil Van Essen managed futures shop here in Chicago, may have been humming that first line (if not the entire song) throughout the month of July. You see, Van Essen managed to post returns of 6.39% in July, his best month since May of 2011, a year the program returned 33%. Since that blowout year, it has been more of a struggle for Emil and his team, however; with losses of about -10.23% in 2012, -6.31% in 2013, and a weak first quarter of this year, down about -4.5%. {past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results}.
Do we still need to do this? A Trend Following Rebuttal
We’ve been known to help straighten out some wayward journalists from time to time, and our friend Michael Covel pointed out just such a journalist in need of some help last night via twitter:
Alternative Links: The Same old Song and Dance
What’s making news in Alternative Investments this week
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