Weekend Reads
Stocks may be touting a banner week, with headlines indicating the “second-best” performance in a year, but behind the scenes, the news isn’t great. U.S. retail numbers were not very strong, with July’s numbers revised downward, and though Europe seems to be bolstering confidence by promising they’ve found a solution, more and more analysts believe […]
Will the Real Hedge Fund Profile Please Stand Up?
Hedge funds are often touted as absolute performance vehicles, which makes us wonder why they have been getting more and more of the relative performance treatment since their miss in 2008 when they were down alongside stocks. The latest comes from a Dow Jones Credit Suisse press release seen here on Yahoo news: The Dow […]
Asset Class Scoreboard through August 2011
It’s time to update our asset class scoreboard through August of 2011. As we expected, things have changed rather dramatically since the last time we took a break to consider the numbers, with August’s roller coaster swings finally factored into the comparison. Here’s where we stand as of last month: Key: as of 8/31/2011 Managed […]
Inside the DDoc
In the managed futures space, you can’t get more than a handshake into a conversation with a manager without taking a look at their disclosure documents (if that far). These carefully crafted documents are written in eloquent legalese that can be a mess to wade through without the proper background or hand-holding, but in our […]
CTA Expo Update: Harr Capital, Emil Van Essen, and the NFA
It was a busy day for Attain at the CTA Expo today, as we sat in on multiple presentations from CTAs and industry influencers alike. One of the more interesting presentation we saw came from Harr Capital- a discretionary trader. They are all managed accounts, and 100% discretionary, relying on fundamentals to guide their trading- […]
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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.
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