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July 26th, 2012
Managed Futures -Longboard Asset Management has announced the launch of the Longboard Managed Futures Strategy Fund (WAVIX), an investment product offering our managed futures strategy in a mutual fund package. Unlike the fund of funds structure, our goal is to offer direct access to portfolio manager talent at relatively lower costs and with greater transparency when compared to fund of funds or private placement opportunities.
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June 20th, 2012
Managed Futures – CME Group and BarclayHedge recognized leaders in the managed futures industry during the inaugural Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards yesterday at the Museum of Broadcast Communications. The ceremony preceded MFA’s Forum 2012 in Chicago and featured live entertainment by Seth Meyers of Saturday Night Live.
The Managed Futures Lifetime Achievement Pinnacle Award was presented to Ken Tropin, Graham Capital Management, for his contributions to the development and maturation of the managed futures industry. He grew Graham Capital into an industry-leading alternative investment manager, helping global investors realize the value of managed futures programs.
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June 1st, 2012
Managed Futures – Money managers cut their net-long positions in Chicago Board of Trade corn futures, government data showed Friday, as investors abandon long positions on slowing demand and improved crop weather.
Broader risk aversion across many asset classes enticed fund managers to trim their long positions in the market as well.
Money managers were net-long 61,493 corn contracts, down 44% from the prior week, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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May 29th, 2012
Managed Futures – Emil van Essen, LLC announced that its flagship Spread Trading Program was nominated for four Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards in the following categories: Best Bear Market Manager (HF Index), Best Defensive CTA (Diversified), Best Risk Adjusted Performance (Diversified), and Greatest Returns (High Volatility – Diversified). Award winners will be announced and presented with a BarclayHedge “BTOP” award during a ceremony on June 11, 2012, in Chicago.
“We continue to see strong growth in long-only commodity funds for the foreseeable future, which is providing us with favorable market conditions for alpha generation.”
“We are honored to be nominated for the inaugural Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards sponsored by CME Group and BarclayHedge,” said Emil van Essen, CEO. “We continue to see strong growth in long-only commodity funds for the foreseeable future, which is providing us with favorable market conditions for alpha generation.”
Emil van Essen, LLC has grown from $210M assets under management in 2011 to over $440M in 2012. The Emil van Essen Spread Trading Program has outperformed both the Barclay CTA Index and Goldman Sachs Commodity Index for the last 4 years.
About Emil van Essen, LLC:
Emil van Essen, LLC is a Chicago, Illinois based investment management firm that specializes in commodity spread trading.
May 16th, 2012
Managed Futures – The returns on this commodity-trading strategy don’t look good — they look spectacular. The average managed-futures program, as measured by the Barclay CTA Index, was up 14% last year — beating the stock market by a staggering 51 percentage points. Run by commodity-trading advisers, or CTAs, these funds manage an estimated $199 billion and may traffic in anything from corn, cotton and crude oil to interest rates, currencies and stock indexes. They often use technical analysis and mathematical formulas to trade on price patterns.
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April 30, 2012
Managed Futures – Smaller managed futures funds able to exploit niche commodity markets and the most volatile conditions are increasingly likely to win assets from investors disappointed with returns from the big trend-followers that dominate the industry.
Managed futures, or commodity trading advisers (CTAs), attracted a wave of assets in 2009 after performing well during the 2008 financial crisis.
Mainstream institutional money flooded into some of the best-known trend-followers, so that 60 percent of total CTA assets are now with the top 10 players.
But since 2009, industry performance has been patchy as traditional trend-following models have struggled in range-bound markets in which it is hard to gain traction.
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