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Category: Newsletter
14
May
2021
Allocating Assets and Attracting Allocators with Ted Seides
From actual capital allocator to branding his book and podcast “Capital Allocator,” Ted Seides has one of the biggest banks of knowledge in the capital allocation game. He’s a well-known author of two books, host of the podcast Capital Allocators, and in his “free time” invests his own money in some of the best and […]
07
Dec
2010
Newsletter: Rethinking the Efficient Frontier
Our weekly newsletter is up at: https://bit.ly/hZw0Dc, and covers the oft quoted but probably more often misunderstood efficient frontier. We start by updating the CME’s woefully out of date efficient frontier graph (it only goes through Feb 2008, right before one of the biggest risk/reward shifts in modern history, leading to our well received comment: […]
14
Dec
2010
Newsletter: Spotlight on Cervino Gold program
Our weekly newsletter is up at: https://bit.ly/f8cy19 We highlight Cervino Capital Management and their new (relatively so) Gold Covered Call program which aims to 1. capture upwards movement in Gold, 2. provide income via covered calls, and 3. provide downside protection in case the Gold rally runs out of steam. If you believe in the […]
21
Dec
2010
Newsletter: Time for End of Year Managed Futures Portfolio Review/New Year Planning
Our weekly newsletter is up at: https://bit.ly/dXlV35 We take a new view on the ubiquitous end of year review mumbo jumbo by hearing what our clients viewed as the things they did right and wrong last year, and are looking to improve on this year. Highlights include: What did I do right last year: Taking […]
28
Dec
2010
Newsletter: Top Managed Futures newsletters of 2010
Our weekly newsletter is up at: https://bit.ly/eFASbB We list our ten most popular newsletters of 2010, as ‘voted’ on by our readers in the form of those who clicked ‘Yes’…I found this article helpful, by Attain staff, and by Facebook fans who ‘liked’ certain newsletters (Click Here to Like Attain on Facebook). View the Top […]
11
Jan
2011
Managed Futures Outlook – 2011
A few million brain cells later… we’re done with our 2011 Managed Futures Outlook. You can view it here: https://bit.ly/efvqt2 We take a look at the main drivers of performance in 2010, including whether volatility was expanding or contracting, the correlation of commodities with the US Dollar, whether markets returned to trading on fundamental factors, […]
25
Jan
2011
Newsletter: 2010 Reviews on 53 different Managed Futures Programs
After more than 5 weeks of painfully extracting information from 35 different managers we work with (you would think they would be more willing and able to share the how, when, why, and where of the year just gone by), our annual CTA by CTA review highlighting what happened for each of the programs we […]
15
Feb
2011
Newsletter: Why your diversification strategy probably won’t work
Heavyweight Welton Investment Corp. (1/2 a billion under mgmt., 13% comp. ROR, -12% Max DD) was nice enough to let us post their excellent research piece on the error prone current asset allocation method of diversifying, in our newsletter last night. You can read the full piece here: Diversification, Often Discussed, but Frequently Misunderstood – by […]
01
Mar
2011
Buyer Beware on Rydex Fund & Wisdom Tree Managed Futures ETF
Our weekly newsletter is up at: https://bit.ly/hvGVwC – asking the question…. Why is $2.39 Billion worth of investors’ capital paying Rydex 2% per year to underperform the managed futures benchmark by a factor of 8 on the return side, or a factor of nearly 3 on the risk side? We promised in a blog post at […]
