Wednesday morning Kevin McPartland, head of research at Greenwich Associates, and his U.S. Treasury Market: Key Takeaways From March 2020 panelists dug into what happened in the market during that remarkable month. The Managed Funds Association’s Ben Allensworth said...
First ReadMFA Has Come to Town, or So We HearDoug Ashburn, JLNThe Managed Funds Association has tiptoed into Chicago today to host Forum 2016, its flagship event that brings together asset allocators and CTAs and hedge fund managers for education and networking. I say...
Observations - Statistics - Commentary It has been a rough stretch for some commodity players, with the long-only commodity funds bearing most of the brunt. Speaking of bearing the brunt, Steven Cohen and SAC Capital Advisors have had a pretty tough week. June brings...
In this issue, first quarter results are still trickling in but it looks to have been a lackluster quarter for managed funds. A hedge fund law firm sees Obamacare as ground zero in a war on carried interest. And, investors are either getting out of commodities, or...
In today’s issue, doomsdayer Marc Faber says that rumors of the death of alpha are highly exaggerated, the rate of new fund launches has slowed considerably, and an Oliver Wyman white paper predicts a shake-up in the commodity trading industry. But up first, JLN...
Anthony Lazzara is co-founder and principal of Lido Isle Advisors, LLC., responsible for selecting and allocating to commodity trading advisors on behalf of the company’s clients. He spoke with JLN Managed Futures editor Jim Kharouf about what he looks for in CTAs...
First Read $34,126/$300,000 (11.4%) ++++ Hits & Takes John Lothian & JLN Staff There is a new Van Gogh exhibit in New York billed as Van Gogh - The Immersive Experience. The site of this exhibit is the former trading floor of the NYMEX. The NYMEX trading floor...
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