Before the winners are selected from the many Pinnacle award categories, we got to wondering how RCM would choose the winners. Who would win in each of the categories and why? Well as it turns out, our new database just so happens to assign a ranking to each manager based on our own proprietary system – which makes the decision purely systematic!
Category: Investing Insight
16
Jun
2017
Weekend Reads: Fear, Chaos, and All-Time Highs
Third is inadequate ability to diversify. This is largely a function of the two problems listed before, and benchmarking and indexing, which has been correlating the markets more and more. I’m not talking about short-term correlations — diversification applies of the time horizon of the assets, which is long. The Biggest Problems for Investors Today […]
12
Jun
2017
The Fed’s No Volatility Mandate
Open Interest has nearly doubled since this boring rate cycle began at the end of 2015/beginning of 2016.
31
May
2017
Alternatives Links: Doubt
Until then, rangebound markets might continue hurting systematic trend-followers in the short run
26
May
2017
Weekend Reads: Interest Rate Empire
Traders are jumping in and out of interest-rate futures as they speculate about Fed rate increases
18
May
2017
Raise Hold or Fold this VIX Move?
All of a sudden the 45% move doesn’t look so exciting when we consider what it actually means – traders adjusted their option pricing to assume the annualized volatility over the next 30 days would be 15.59% versus 10.65%
17
May
2017
The Top Managed Futures Managers of April
For those that are looking for the top performers of the month, ignoring risk metrics, RCM’s due diligence, and exclusively sort by returns only, these are the Top 10 programs in April.
16
May
2017
Michael Covel – Trend Following
We’re not sure if author Michael Covel has a tattoo across his back of a trend in a market like Sugar, but suffice to say the man loves him some trend following. We follow him on twitter @Covel and listen to his wonderful podcast from time to time – so when we saw the news that he had released a […]
08
May
2017
Alternative Investments: Beyond the Buzz Words
According to findings from recent research conducted by InvestmentNews, 83% of clients have expressed some level of interest in alternative investments.
03
May
2017
Alternative Links: Remembering Long Term Capital Management
Amid an improbable level of calm in markets, it’s worth remembering what Victor Haghani, a partner at Long-Term Capital Management, said in early 1999 about the fund’s implosion, especially given that quiet markets are compelling trading strategies that capitalize on low levels of volatility.
