Last year at this time we were labeling the asset class scoreboard Red October due to dismal returns by nearly every class. So, what should we label it now? Pos-i-tober…..? Mehh, we’ll keep working on the name while Managed Futures needs to get to work on creating some positive returns. Hopefully we finish out the […]
Category: Education
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Nov
2019
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Oct
2019
SEMI-ANNUAL MANAGED FUTURES RANKINGS (UPDATED OCTOBER 2019)
Semi-Annual Managed Futures Outlook in 60 seconds: Our outlook ranks the top funds across 8 different categories, because no two investors are alike in what they are seeking out of an alternative investment. See the top manager from each category below and download the full whitepaper to see additional top performing programs. More than […]
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Oct
2019
What is seen more often – All-time Highs or Drawdowns?
CNBC and the financial press LOVE all time highs. What else would you put on the front page on a day that all is well in the world and the US stock market is at all time highs. The story writes itself when the market arbitrarily prints a few points above some prior arbitrary print. […]
03
Oct
2019
Talking Profit and Loss at Profit and Loss
RCM’s Jeff Malec was able to sit down on a panel at Profit & Loss magazine’s annual Forex Network conference here in Chicago, to talk profit and loss in the managed futures/macro space (Which sort of reminds us of the new Allstate commercial talking about being a tailgator tailgating on the way to a tailgate). […]
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Oct
2019
Asset Class Scoreboard: September 2019
Is anyone going to be able to stop U.S. Real Estate and US Stocks? Yeeeeshh, those two classes rebounded big time in Sep, to get back into the 20%+ club. In the world of MF, there was a classic reversion to the mean after a big August, causing managed futures to drop a couple spots, […]
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Sep
2019
Hogs=one confused market
A few months back we were talking about the “Hogdiculous” market moves created by the African Swine Flu and sending the Hog market into a frenzy. ASF is highly contagious –as in if 1 or 2 of your pigs shows symptoms, you’ll have to get rid of your whole lot kind of contagious – and […]
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Sep
2019
Asset Class Scoreboard: August 2019
Look who’s up there enjoying the double party after a strong August. It’s Managed futures turning in the negatively correlated performance people yearn for in a bumpy month for stocks. US real estate continues to go bonkers, while commodities and bonds are perhaps the biggest surprise YTD near 10% gains. Hedge Funds, meanwhile, continue to […]
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Aug
2019
Book Review – Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
Man, were we excited to pick up Annie Duke’s book on game theory and how she approaches life (and poker) by thinking in bets. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts After all, that’s what a good alternative investment strategy does. It “thinks” in terms of an asymmetric […]
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Aug
2019
Basics for Building an Alternative Investments Portfolio
Just throwing something into a portfolio labeled an Alternative Investment is likely going to be a mess. But a lot of times, that’s what happens. A client listens to the words Alternative Investments, but hears the words diversification and stabilization and all the rest. Before you know it, some random Alts strategy is in a […]
02
Aug
2019
Asset Scoreboard: July
Not the greatest start to the third quarter of the year. After the returns in the second quarter of 2019, July gave some pretty dismal returns. For the first time this year there isn’t a double-digit return on the board. Managed futures had the best return of the month, and luckily all of the classes […]
