NBA Finals Reminds Us of a Key Managed Futures Lesson
The NBA Finals are over and done, and being Chicago Bulls fans (a mandatory requirement to work at Attain), we were only too happy to see the Dallas Mavericks beat the Miami Heat (who had knocked our beloved Bulls out a round earlier). After much hullabaloo over the star power radiating from the Heat (not […]
Dollars and Sense in Managed Futures Funding
Our newsletter is out for the week, and we’re digging into the nuts and bolts of managed futures funding. For the average investor, managed futures investments may seem like a pipe dream. The idea of $1 million as a minimum investment can be off-putting for some. Even the more seasoned investor may cringe at the […]
Risk on… Risk Off… Where’s Mr. Miyagi ?
On occasion, you may hear us refer to “risk on” or “risk off” market environments – which conjure up images of old Mr. Miyagi doing his ‘wax on/wax off’ training in the 80’s classic The Karate Kid. But we’re not the only ones leaning on the jargon. These terms have become part of the lexicon […]
The CME pushing a Gamble? Think Again
Yet another piece has come out from someone with little understanding of managed futures and a bullhorn at his side. This time around, Allan Roth (of CBS, no less) is taking the industry to task after hearing what he believed to be a misleading presentation at The Money Show in Las Vegas (what happened to […]
The Derivative Regulation Catch-22
The world listened closely as Timothy Geithner rambled on about the need to create global financial regulations for derivatives in order to prevent another “race to the bottom” a la the 2008 Credit Crisis. This is all fine and well, except for the fact that his call to action was incredibly vague and largely improbable. […]
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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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