Managed Futures Industry Ditches Polar Vortex for MFA
We had the opportunity to catch up with longtime friends of Attain this year as well as some new faces at the 2014 MFA Network Conference. We can’t possibly relay all that was seen and heard, but here’s a short list of managers we caught up with, and what they are up to recently:
A Different Kind of History Lesson (the VIX)
It’s a great day to remember one of our nation’s heroes, but for many in the alternative investment space – this three day “market” weekend (stock and bond markets are closed today) brings back memories of a nasty little volatility spike back in 2008. The financial crisis was upon us, and the first big warning shot across the bow was actually on MLK weekend (Jan 20th, 2008).
Is The World Ready To Trade Futures On Their Mobile Phones?
Ready or not – mobile futures trading (and stock, and options, and baseball cards) has been going on for years now, with a new futures trading app called iBroker. It’s ready for the big time in the US. As of today – the iBroker app is now connected to the popular desktop platform CQG. Meaning… any CQG user at any participating FCM can now access their balances, positions, orders, and place trades via their existing CQG login. Cool!
It’s Final: 2013 Asset Class Scoreboard
Not that anyone didn’t already know – but US Stocks did really, really well last year, leading the race for top asset class basically wire to wire on the way to +30% returns for the S&P 500 to lead our 2013 Asset Class Scoreboard… read ‘em and weep below:
Chart of the Week: Stop being Average
We couldn’t help but notice something significant missing from Bob Doll’s chart which is making the rounds. it looks at the 20 Year annualized returns by asset classes dating from 1992-2011 as well as what the “average investor” has made. Ignore for a second that this data is 2 years stale… it has a bigger problem in our view – managed futures wasn’t included.
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The mention of specific asset class performance (i.e. +3.2%, -4.6%) is based on the noted source index (i.e. Newedge CTA Index, S&P 500 Index, etc.), and investors should take care to understand that any index performance is for the constituents of that index only, and does not represent the entire universe of possible investments within that asset class. And further, that there can be limitations and biases to indices such as survivorship, self reporting, and instant history.
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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