Do you learn from your mistakes? Do your neighbors, colleagues, or the rest of society? It seems that the answer is usually no; and especially no when it comes to the toxic investment cycle of getting in at the highs and out at the lows. We see time after time that this dangerous cycle transcends […]
Category: Managed Futures
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Mar
2015
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Mar
2015
February’s Best By Performance
While one month’s performance is no way to judge an investment that has 3 to 5 year cycles, a glance at who’s doing well in the different environments month to month can be a useful data point at times. Here’s the top managed futures performers (by return only) for the month gone by:
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Mar
2015
Making the Case for New Managers
A lot of investors out there have some hard and fast rules when it comes to selecting managers for their alternatives portfolio. But are these investors missing the forest for the trees (albeit redwoods), so to speak?
12
Mar
2015
Revealed: Stock Futures Cheaper Than ETFs
It’s no secret that we’re not a fan of Commodity ETFs vs their future counterparts. There’s one part of this discussion we’ve left out, the benefits and risks of Stock Futures Indices contracts, compared to their very popular ETF counterparts. Lucky for us, the CME group just released a succinct whitepaper
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Mar
2015
Alternative Links: Winton’s Milestone
David Harding’s Winton Capital Passes $30 Billion for First Time
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Mar
2015
Attain Funds February Performance
Well, there goes our perfect game. After 6 plus months of collective gains for the Attain Family of Funds, and a great start to the year – each of our managed futures funds posted small losses in February. The good news, three of four funds still remain positive on the year. The market consolidation in commodities, currencies, and fixed income were the main culprits for the down month, with months long trends slowing down.
06
Mar
2015
Where Do We Put All This Oil?
For the first time in forever, our nation is presented with a problem we wish we had in the past… where do we put all the oil? Think about it, some might argue that wars have been started over how much oil we have. Bloomberg is out with a chart showing Cushing Oklahoma could run out of storage in a just a couple months if projected growth in supplies continues.
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Mar
2015
Managed Futures February Performance
Trees don’t grow to the sky, we’re told – and we saw that in Feb as managed futures snapped their 6 month winning streak. Back in August of 2014, Managed Futures started posting its outlier gains that the asset class is familiar with, stringing together 6 consecutive months of positive performance to exit a 3 […]
03
Mar
2015
Attain and RCM to Join Forces!
We’re happy to announce today that we’ve entered into an agreement to join forces RCM Alternatives.
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Mar
2015
Asset Class Scoreboard Two Months In
In a “business as usual” market environment with new all time highs almost every day in the S&P 500, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ Composite, it’s fun to play the game, which asset class has done the best since the beginning of the year, or over the past twelve months. You might be surprised as to who’s on top and who’s not.
