John Lothian News interviewed Scott Morris of Blackthorne Capital Management ahead of the launch of a new fund offered through Efficient Capital Management.
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CPO and CTA Registrations Drop Slightly in First Six Months of 2020
Since the end of 2019, the number of Commodity Pool Operators, or CPOs, registered with the National Futures Association has dropped by almost 6% and the number of Commodity Trading Advisors, or CTAs, has dropped 5% during the same time frame.
NFA Election – Ernest Jaffarian reply to statements of James Koutoulas and John Roe
From Ernest Jaffarian:I find it necessary to speak to a number of mischaracterizations regarding the service of Doug Bry and myself on the NFA Board.It was Doug Bry who originally suggested to me in 2011 that I pursue election to the NFA Board. He did so out of a...
Dear Mr. Roe, Thanks for the Reply
John Roe has responded to my editorial supporting Ernest Jaffarian and Doug Bry over him and James Koutoulas for the upcoming election. He posted it on the Commodity Customer Coalition website. As promised, I posted it to John Lothian News, excerpting it in a blog...
A Tale of Two Responses
My commentary about the NFA CTA/CPO election on Friday elicited different responses from the candidates I did not endorse; John Roe and James Koutoulas. Roe sent a respectful note, asked for a public clarification of some points and the opportunity to respond in this...
James Koutoulas Needs to Put Up or Step Aside
NFA board of directors member James Koutoulas has made some troubling accusations about the nomination of public directors by the NFA Board’s Executive Committee. He needs to come forth with some convincing smoking gun, proving the conspiracy and cover up he is...
Unfinished Business: John Roe Asks for Two More Years on the NFA Board of Directors
This year's elections for the board of directors of the National Futures Association is underway. John Lothian News spoke with several of the candidates, including commodity trading advisor and Commodity Customer Coalition co-founder John Roe, first elected to the...
A Radical Choice in NFA’s CTA/CPO Election Category
Turnover on the NFA's Board of Directors comes infrequently. I can't remember a single instance where a non-Nominating Committee slated candidate succeeded in being elected until Ernest Jaffarian and Douglas Bry were elected last year. This year could be the same with...
John Lothian News launches FuturesCrowd.com
Who wants to be a Millionaire? In the television game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire," contestants have 4 choices on how to answer the questions. They can answer themselves, or if they don't know the answer, they can use one of three lifelines to try to come up...
Guest Commentary: How to Save the Futures Industry
Guest Commentary By Jeff Malec, CEO - Attain Capital Management: To say the MF Global situation is a mess may be the understatement of the century. What began as an excuse to extol the segregated account's safeguards against an FCM stock slide as MF Global shares lost...
George Rohrs – Uhlmann Price Securities
George Rohrs, Jr. got his start in the managed funds business with R.J. O'Brien & Associates in the early 1980s, where he helped the firm develop its commodity pool operator business along with managed futures. Today, he is the owner and president of Rohrs &...
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