Managed Futures Education Managed Futures: Portfolio Diversification Opportunities WHAT ARE MANAGED FUTURES? The term managed futures describes a diverse subset of active hedge fund strategies that trade liquid, transparent, centrally-cleared exchange-traded products, and deep in... Read More Overlaying Strategies in Managed Futures: Does it Help an Investor? Discussing this topic of overlaying strategies really gets to the heart of one question that keeps reappearing, “why are CTAs non-correlated to equities?” This is a very simple question to ask and is ... Read More 5 Things You Should Know About Managed Futures Many Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) will allow you to use U.S. government securities as collateral in your futures account. Some FCMs will even accept municipal bonds, foreign currencies, and for... Read More Choosing a CTA ... If you’ve decided to include Managed Futures in your investment portfolio, the next step is choosing the right mix of Commodity Trading Advisors to help achieve your investment objectives. Just as ... Read More 10 Reasons to Consider Adding Managed Futures to Your Portfolio Managed Futures are an alternative asset class that has achieved strong performance in both up and down markets, exhibiting low correlation to traditional asset classes, such as stocks, bonds, cash an... Read More Peering Over the Fiscal Cliff by Tyler Resch, Portfolio Manager, IASG Posted October 18th, 2012 As we go into the final few months of the year we are more and more concerned with how we position ourselves going into 2013. ... Read More Definitions and Formulas Arbitrage: There are a number of sub-strategies that fall under arbitrage. The most prevalent in the managed futures industry is statistical arbitrage. A simple example of this is simultaneously bu... Read More Crisis Alpha and Risk in Alternative Investment Strategies The investment community has heard and is following the siren call of Alternative Investments. Their seductive return properties and the mystique surrounding how they make money has tantalized investo... Read More Top 5 List - Why Managed Futures? Futures may be used to manage the risk of volatile investments and to capitalize on speculative opportunities associated with that volatility. But the fast-paced and increasingly sophisticated nature ... Read More Lintner Revisited: The Benefits of Managed Futures 25 Years Later Dr. John Lintner, a Harvard Professor, presented the seminal paper entitled “The Potential Role of Managed Commodity – Financial Futures Accounts (and/or Funds) in Portfolios of Stocks and Bonds” at t... Read More next