Weekend Reads
You know it’s been an interesting week when Russian President Vladimir Putin suggests the idea that could potentially save America from its own foreign policy problems regarding Syria. In the managed futures world, Attain Capital did get some press this week that we can’t resist mentioning, with Jeff Eizenberg quoted in an article on the supposed ‘death of managed futures’. It just so happens to be the first article on our weekend reads. See for yourself.
What Everybody Ought to Know About Managed Futures Asset Class Growth
The managed futures industry prides itself whenever assets under management is brought into the discussion. It’s grown exponentially over the years (past performance is not necessarily indicative to future results), but as we’ve pointed out before, that total AUM number includes the largest Hedge Fund in the world — Bridgewater — which we don’t consider to part of the group. This suggests that this AUM number can be quite deceiving, so we decided to recreate total AUM without the growth from Bridgewater, and managed futures’ largest program, Winton. Plus, a look at the managed futures quarterly growth numbers and why it might be just what managed futures is looking for.
Sortino Ratio: Are you calculating it wrong?
The group over at Red Rock sure thinks so. Red Rock states the real definition of the Sortino ratio uses not the standard deviation of negative returns, but instead the ‘target downside deviation’, which is the deviations of the realized return’s underperformance from the target return. What does that mean to the normal person who has trouble reading math equations?
Finding the Next Tom Brady for your Portfolio
What a fantastic first week of the NFL season. Now’s the time to make all your changes to your fantasy team. What worked? What didn’t? It’s also the perfect time to draw parallels between the drafting players, fantasy football, and investing. While it only seems natural to want to pick the biggest, strongest, fastest players who come from the most successful programs in the football world, the better method of picking talent, in our books, is to judge off of risk adjusted performance, or performance over a minimum acceptable return adjusted for risk, or best worst periods, and so on.
Weekend Reads – September 6, 2013
Despite weaker than expected job growth, unemployment dipped slightly this week, matching levels last seen in December of 2008. Traders have reacted positively amid optimism that the weaker than expected job growth will lead the Federal Reserve to once again delay its decision to begin tapering its stimulus program.
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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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