PFGBest Update: Ignorance, Negligence, and Accountability
We wrote in the past about the NFA attempting to improve its processes by hiring Berkeley Research Group to look into its auditing practices, and where it went wrong with PFGBest. Now we’re starting to get an idea of what the Berkeley Research Group has been up to.
Weekend Reads
What was a fringe idea for circumventing the debt ceiling just a few weeks ago has taken the financial media by storm, and the trillion-dollar platinum coin was undoubtedly the story of the week. Rest assured you’ll be hearing a lot more about the debt ceiling in the coming weeks. But before get into all that, here’s what we’re reading headed into the weekend.
It’s All About Context
One of the most common questions we hear is about the fees charged in the managed futures world. For many there can be a fixation on how much an investment “costs,” without contextualization of the investment’s performance and role in a portfolio. So when we see someone in the traditional space bemoaning this mindset, we breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that there are people out there who get it.
Financial Literacy and Meeting the Need
Despite the best efforts of financial bloggers, Americans, in particular, still have no idea what any of us are talking about. So we want to know: What do you want to see from financial bloggers? How can we improve the content we’re putting out in order to make it more useful to you?
Seeking Managers with the XX Factor
Last year wasn’t just rough for managed futures – hedge funds had a lackluster year compared to the soaring equity indices. But as it turns out, their struggles weren’t uniform – a subset of the industry did quite a bit better than their peers, and Dealbook is chalking it up to hedge funds that had a certain XX factor…
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The performance data for various Commodity Trading Advisor (“CTA”) and Commodity Pools are compiled from various sources, including Barclay Hedge, RCM’s own estimates of performance based on account managed by advisors on its books, and reports directly from the advisors. These performance figures should not be relied on independent of the individual advisor’s disclosure document, which has important information regarding the method of calculation used, whether or not the performance includes proprietary results, and other important footnotes on the advisor’s track record.
The mention of general asset class performance (i.e. managed futures did well, stocks were down, bonds were up) is based on RCM’s direct experience in those asset classes, estimates of performance of dozens of CTAs followed by RCM, and averaging of various indices designed to track said asset classes.
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