A Sense of an Ending from Bill Gross
Category: Other Voices
CTAs: 5 Reasons to Take on AQR
We noticed an article outside the financial media realm that resonated with us. It’s about not being afraid to take on the Goliath. In our industry, it’s the AQR or Pimco, or outlining why investors don’t need to be afraid to look outside of those goliath boxes.
Alternative Links: Asset Flows
“Commodity trading advisors (CTAs) hauled in a 3½-year high of $5.7 billion (1.5% of assets) in February, reversing an outflow of $1.6 billion (0.4% of assets) in January.”
Weekend Reads: 273 Perfect Brackets Left
March Madness:
273 Brackets Still Perfect After Thursday’s Game – (FiveThirtyEight)
Big Data Probabilities for Match Madness – (Attains Alternatives Blog)
Alternative Links: Non-FOMC News
Looking Up: RJO’s Gerry Corcoran Bullish On Managed Futures, Trends are back!
Weekend Reads: Income By L Train Stop
Nasdaq preps foray into energy futures, Watch Four Years of Oil Drilling Collapse in Seconds
Weekend Reads: Millennials
Millennials: What Do Millennials Really Want? – (Alan Murray) {Infographic} Milllennials Coming of Age – (Goldman Sachs) Crude Oil: Where Do We Put All This Oil? – (Attains Alternatives Blog) CME Group to launch new physical crude storage contract – (Reuters) The Economy: A Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Gets It Very, Very Wrong On Seasonal […]
Alternative Links: Asset Flows
“And after six months of strong results after years of underperformance, managed futures strategies (which make bets on commodities and other futures contracts) [brought in] $4 billion in January alone.”
Alternative Links: Podcasts
“It’s not about trying to make all the trades a winner – it’s about having the average win be much greater than the average loss – and that is asymmetry.”
Walmart’s Wages, Biotech Bubble, and Saving the Planet Trading Futures
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