This one-day event at the Swissotel on June 28th is aimed largely at the end-users of the markets: commodity trading advisors, asset managers, hedge funds and proprietary traders. The event is free to attend for CTAs, asset managers, props and hedge funds. To...
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JLN Managed Futures: Strong start to 2016 for CTAs; Liquidation of MF Global Comes to an End; Goldman Sachs Abandons Five of Six ‘Top Trade’ Calls for 2016
Observations/CommentaryBetter Late than Never JLN Managed futures apologizes for being a day late in the delivery of the mid-month edition. Today's issue brings you a bit of everything from lousy performances from hedge funds and John Paulson in January (but a...
Looking Up: RJO’s Gerry Corcoran Bullish On Managed Futures
As chairman and CEO of one of the largest FCMs in the world, Gerry Corcoran of RJ O'Brien has diversified its services from futures execution and a clearing member firm to a host of other markets and businesses including managed futures. To him, the managed futures...
Fund Injection: Peter Borish Looks to Ramp Up Managed Funds Space
Peter Borish has seen the ups and downs in the fund space over his career. Now as chief strategist at Quad Advisors, he is focused on providing key infrastructure services to the managed funds space. Borish spoke with John Lothian,...
JLN Managed Futures: Managed futures enjoy rare strong performance; Barclay CTA Index Gains 1.63% in August; Why managed futures aren't getting the job done
Observations/Commentary Which Direxion for 40 Act Funds Jim Kharouf, John Lothian News The question for many in the managed futures industry at the CTA Expo in Chicago last month was where the next opportunity will come from. Several years now into the next big thing...
The A,B,C’s: Ian Morley’s Tips for Emerging Managers
Emerging managers have always faced challenges getting their firms off the ground. From establishing a track record to building the infrastructure needed to grow, firms are now faced with a new regulatory regime in the US and Europe that puts additional hurdles in...
Old School/New School: Mark de Souza says County Cork blends experience with technology
The managed futures space is always producing new managers with new takes on the market. County Cork LLC, a managed futures firm, is looking to bring experience to its clients with traders in the agriculture and equity markets who’ve seen it all. John Lothian News sat...
Emerging Opportunity: Silvercrest’s Mike Dubin on Matching Small Funds with Large Investors
The managed futures space continued to struggle to post enticing returns in 2013, but Silvercrest Asset Management’s Mike Dubin says that has not kept his firm from looking for emerging manager talent in the space. Dubin, who spoke at the Emerging Manager Forum in...
Single Minded: Tom Regazzi of UBS Finds a Niche with Single Stock Futures
Single stock futures in the United States were launched in 2001, but are often forgotten since their big splash introduction twelve years ago on two exchanges. Quietly, however, single stock futures have been growing nicely at OneChicago, the sole marketplace for the...
Leigh Faber Discusses Family Offices and Allocating to Managed Futures
As alternative investments continue the march toward mainstream, and as institutional investors continue to increase allocations to the alternative space, more high-net-worth investors are opening their eyes to non-traditional asset classes. However, there is no...
Jack Schwager on Market Wizards and How the CTA Space is Changing (Part 1)
Jack Schwager is a well-known name in the financial market community today, as author of trading classics such as: Market Wizards in 1989, The New Market Wizards in 1992 and Stock Market Wizards in 2001. He’s added to the series in May 2012, with Hedge Fund Market...
Jack Schwager on Market Wizards and How the CTA Space is Changing (Part 2)
In part two, Schwager describes his role as portfolio management role at ADM. He also discusses the growing trend toward managed futures mutual funds, which have grown to about $9 billion in assets under management at the end of November 2012, according to data from...
Todd Fulton of Pioneer Futures on CTA Fees, Capacity Caps and Managed Futures Mutual Funds (Part 2/2)
Todd Fulton, vice president, managed futures at Pioneer Futures, has been around the CTA space for more than 20 years. In Part 2 of our conversation, he spoke with JLN Managed Futures editor Jim Kharouf about emerging managers’ impact on the managed futures space as...
Todd Fulton of Pioneer Futures on What Investors Want in Emerging Managers (Part 1/2)
Todd Fulton, Vice President, Managed Futures at Pioneer Futures, has been around the CTA space for more than 20 years. He spoke with JLN Managed Futures editor Jim Kharouf about just what it is that attracts investors to emerging CTAs, why he isn’t sold on Sharpe...
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