Category: Newsletter

14 Jun 2011

Dollars and Sense in Managed Futures Funding

Our newsletter is out for the week, and we’re digging into the nuts and bolts of managed futures funding. For the average investor, managed futures investments may seem like a pipe dream. The idea of $1 million as a minimum investment can be off-putting for some. Even the more seasoned investor may cringe at the […]

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21 Jun 2011

Attain Capital’s Top 15 Blog Posts YTD

Since 2002, Attain has dedicated themselves to the cultivation of quality managed futures education and research – putting out this Monday newsletter nearly every one of the 400+ Mondays since we opened our doors. Believe it or not, this type of work every Monday hasn’t left us tired or out of ideas – but instead […]

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28 Jun 2011

Managed Futures Spotlight: Quantum Leap Capital

This week’s managed futures spotlight belongs to none other than Quantum Leap Capital. It is not often you meet a CTA from Mexico- never mind a CTA that also built a world class visual effects studio (also in Mexico) that won an Oscar for its work on the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Today, […]

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12 Jul 2011

Money Can’t Buy You Happiness, but….

Our weekly newsletter is up, and this time around, we’re delving into the world of the wealthy, and the categories that come with it. It turns out that the lifestyles of the rich and the famous extend far beyond access to Bugatti Roadsters , yachts to pull up alongside happiness, and expensive caviar. Wealth, in and […]

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25 Jul 2011

Attain Capital Semi-Annual CTA Rankings Out Tonight

It’s Monday at the Attain Capital office, which usually means we’re hard at work crafting our newsletter for the week. This week, however, is particularly busy, because we’re putting together the Attain Capital Semi-Annual CTA Rankings. The goal of the Attain Capital Semi-Annual CTA Rankings is to provide a more sophisticated picture than the simple […]

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26 Jul 2011

Attain Capital Semi-Annual CTA Rankings

It’s that time of year again, when we have the data for all of the CTAs we track through the end of June – the halfway point of the year – allowing us to try and answer the question we get on a daily basis: What’s your BEST managed futures program?  That question is always a […]

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02 Aug 2011

CTA Spotlight: Futures Truth

With another round of our Semi-Annual CTA Rankings in the books, it is time to dive in and highlight one of the programs listed in our Top 15. We recently profiled #1 ranked P/E Investments FX Strategy in February, while #2 ranked Emil Van Essen was the subject of the spotlight for  March. Therefore, tonight we are going to skip […]

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09 Aug 2011

6.5 Thoughts on a -666 Point Dow Down Day

Our newsletter is up for this week, and unless you are one of the lucky few who is cruising the Caribbean, without power, or otherwise disconnected from the world today – you have no doubt heard of the financial fallout following S&P’s downgrade of US Debt and resulting market activity: Dow down -635 pts (-5.55%), […]

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23 Aug 2011

Crystal Ball Gazing: The Future of the Pits

This week’s newsletter is live, and it’s a bit of a departure from the norm for us. Our newsletters typically put an emphasis on research and education that pertains specifically to managed futures, but with the markets moving in unpredictable ways lately, trying to peer into the future for the industry is akin to predicting […]

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30 Aug 2011

Why Managed Futures Love Bonds

Our weekly newsletter is out, and this time around, we’re letting you in on a secret ingredient in managed futures success- bonds. When most people think of the bond market, they think of nerdy fixed income analysts and boring, low rates of return. After all, there isn’t a whole lot of excitement in an investment […]

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