Over the last two to three years, aiSource has noticed a decreasing rate of one-man operations entering the CTA space. Prior to this period, it was very prevalent to come across an emerging manager that was a single man start-up. These single person CTAs are in many cases bootstrapped operations…
In a recent blog post, we examined why investors should consider managed futures at a time when flows into passive funds continue to push equity valuations higher and volatility remains depressed. In that post, we explained that a growing sense of complacency among investors has led them to overlook mounting…
We wanted to share with you one of our most popular blog posts: an updated list of the top FCMs (based on customer funds held in segregation). When doing research in selecting a futures commission merchant, or FCM, (i.e. custodian) to house your managed futures portfolio, it can be difficult…
The top performing commodity trading advisors of the first half of 2017 has been a mixed bag of varying strategies, and market sector specialists. While many CTA indices are reporting negative years so far in 2017, there are many CTAs in aiSource’s pool of approved managers that are having positive…