2020 followed 2019’s lead and was another good year for many CTA strategies. CTA indices were also up, with Barclay’s CTA index posting a positive return of 5.4% and, and the SocGen CTA Index posting a positive return of 3.1%. Agricultural strategies, which had been out of favor over the…
COVID-19 Many Improvements transpired in January, with vaccinations in some countries moving forward at a good pace and lower case/hospitalization counts, though other areas lagged and new variants raised fears of a protracted illness. To summarize the positive side: Per Bloomberg’s tracker, over 100 million doses have been administered…
OPEC+ Set New Production Levels at their January 5th meeting with a surprise 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) cut by Saudi Arabia for February and March while Russia and Kazakhstan will increase their official production by a combined 75,000 bpd for those two months. Oil prices moved higher to the…
One of our most popular blog posts: a list of the top FCMs (based on customer funds held in segregation) has been updated with end of 2020 numbers. When doing research in selecting a futures commission merchant, or FCM, (i.e. custodian) to house your managed futures portfolio, it can be…