“You can see why managed futures grew in popularity following the crisis. This particular index outperformed stocks by more than 50% in 2008 and beat a 60/40 portfolio by roughly 40%. Predictably, managed futures mutual funds exploded in AUM from around $200 million in 2007 to almost $2.5 billion by the end of 2009 as […]
Category: Education
28
Jul
2015
Is Managed Futures Secret Weapon Coming Back?
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away – where China was preparing for the Summer Olympics, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, and Crude Oil was hitting levels at $140; a small band of rebels called short term interest rates were actually whole numbers (like 1%, 2%, and 3%).
27
Jul
2015
Have They Convinced You Commodities Are Dead Yet?
If you had a dollar for every article about how horrible commodities have been performing, well, you’d be rich.
24
Jul
2015
23
Jul
2015
The Cringeworthy Long Only Commodities Table
How the numerous commodity ETFs which have sprung onto the scene the past few years are tracking a simple strategy of just buying the December futures market of that commodity, under the theory that the ETF will have to roll their positions periodically throughout the year, and in doing so take on costs the simple strategy does not have.
22
Jul
2015
An Alternative Way to view Diversification
One of the many ways to look at diversification over the past 15 years. Have you called the winners each year?
20
Jul
2015
Insights from Alternatives Best in Boston
In our best efforts to inform and educate investors about Alternative Investments, we set off to Boston last week to talk alternatives.
16
Jul
2015
Why Can’t I Trade Chinese Stock Futures?
While we’ve all been setting our DVRs to record the Bachelorette, there’s been a bit of a blood bath going on over in China. A $3.2 Trillion loss in value blood bath.
07
Jul
2015
Infographic: 7 Traditional vs 7 Alternative Assets in 5 Bear Markets
Introducing an infographic looking at 14 different asset classes performing during 5 different crisis periods over the past 20 years, thanks to our newly found graphic designer, which came as part of our merger with RCM.
30
Jun
2015
Rain Makes Grains (Die?)
Forget what’s happing halfway around the world in Greece, we’ve got a storm brewing here in the heartland of America, in the grain markets. One quick look at the Finviz quote table, and we can see grains are as a green as the commodities they represent.
