Welcome to early 2020, where we have a whole year of TBDs and fill-in-the-blanks ahead of us. One of the big unknowns for us in the US is whether the negative interest rate experiment will spread from Asia and Europe onto our shores. We covered what this could mean for alternative investments in our Global […]
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09
Dec
2019
Commodity Performance Over the Decade (2009-2019)
Just 22 days left in the decade, and we’re going to use a good portion of those to look back on some of the top performing markets, asset classes, and alternative investment funds over that time. First up, commodities, which would likely rather not be mentioned at all. Talk about a lost decade….2010 through 2019 […]
02
Dec
2019
Asset Class Scoreboard: November 2019
While it sure doesn’t seem like it given how high most asset classes have risen this year, a full 5 of the 8 asset classes we track were down in November (albeit slightly). The wet season and late harvesting had put a big damper on commodities especially in November, and U.S. Real Estate has taken […]
19
Nov
2019
Johari Blind Spots & Behavioral Finance
“…the investor’s chief problem and his worst enemy is likely to be himself.” Benjamin Graham The Johari Window was designed to help people better understand their relationship with themselves and others. Created in the ‘50s by two psychologists, it’s main function is for self-help groups. You pick from a number adjectives and insert them into […]
04
Nov
2019
Asset Class Scoreboard: October 2019
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 […]
30
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 […]
28
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). […]
02
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, […]
19
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 […]
