Top 15 Managed Futures – Attain’s semi annual rankings
The latest Attain newsletter is up at http://bit.ly/hTlLjH… presenting our semi-annual Top 15 rankings amongst those managed futures programs we track. Our managed futures program rankings have...
View ArticleA Spoon for Your Alphabet Soup
As members of the National Futures Association, or NFA, everything we publish is reviewed to ensure compliance with regulation. The goal is to make sure the information we present to the public is...
View ArticleThe Sortino Solution to the Sharpe Ratio
This post is part of an ongoing series on the Attain Capital blog that seeks to help investors understand the various metrics we use to evaluate managers. Stay tuned for future pieces! * * * *...
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Newsletter: Where’s the Beef (Return)?
For those of you who remember the famous “Where’s the Beef” commercials of the 80s, a slightly different version seems to apply to plenty of the managed futures industry lately – Where’s the Return?...
View ArticleThe 10 most read Managed Futures posts of 2013
Another year and another reflection back on the year that was. Before we get too excited about 2014 and the endless possibilities, opportunities, and chances, we want to look back on the year that...
View ArticleManaged Futures Linkfest
Managed Futures Performance: Winton & BlueCrest win Colorado Pension tickets – (CTA Intelligence) Managed Futures expectations – (Pension & Investments) Tough times for Managed Futures Fund’s...
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The Sterling Ratio Explained
Sitting here five years from the March 2009 lows in the stock market, it can be easy to forget just what makes alternative investments appealing for many investors. It isn’t the top line performance...
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Will Simple Beat Complex in the Next 5 Years?
One of our favorite bloggers almost made us cry yesterday… It’s Barry Ritholtz, formerly of The Big Picture Blog, but now plying his wares at Bloomberg – who grabbed the charts out of our own post on...
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Why Hedge Funds Don’t Care if They’re Underperforming the S&P
With the S&P 500 showing triple digit returns since the financial crisis, we’ve noticed there have been more and more publications denouncing hedge funds as under performing the S&P 500. We...
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25 Questions Every Investor Should Know About Commodity Long-Short Strategies
The final numbers for 2015 are still rolling in, but there’s one manager (and specifically) one program worth mentioning. While Managed Futures as a whole seemed to break even in 2015, the Red Rock...
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