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The Need for Speed in Trend-Following Strategies

By Adi Mackic, Man AHL – “I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed.” At Man AHL, we empathise with what is probably Maverick’s...

Inflation, Post-Inflation, No Inflation – What’s an Investor to do?

By Mike Going, Mike Marcey, and Marat Molyboga, Efficient Capital – Inflation has been at the forefront of the agendas of investors and central banks...

Themes of 2022

By Kathryn M. Kaminski and Yingshan Zhao, AlphaSimplex – As macroeconomic uncertainty and inflation created havoc on traditional assets in 2022, this resulted in...

Bringing Back “Crisis Alpha”

By Alan Dunne and Niels Kaastrup-Larsen, Top Traders Unplugged – 2022 was in some ways a reminder of why Managed Futures strategies, particularly Trend Following...

Special Report: Managed Futures

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Summarizing, 2022 underlined the case that trend following CTAs should not only be a part of a portfolio to provide diversification...

PIMCO’s Pure Play Trend Following Strategy

London (HedgeNordic) – PIMCO’s commitment to quantitative strategies, and its distinctive environment for quant research, were first developed in 2003, the year its quant...

ESG — No Hiding Behind the Hedges

By Harold de Boer, Transtrend – A theme that is increasingly in the spotlight for Managed Futures strategies is ESG, which concerns whether and how...

Velliv on CTAs: “We Value Simplicity over Complexity”

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – In the investment management arena, 2022 was the year of trend-following CTAs. Twenty of the world’s largest CTAs tracked by Société...

January: Mirror Image of 2022 for Nordic CTAs

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – The average return of the eight “CTA” constituents of the Nordic Hedge Index that had positive performance in 2022 was 14.4...

2022: The Year of Traditional Trend-Followers

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Trend-following CTAs enjoyed one of their best years in 2022 amid a lack of equilibrium across regions and asset classes. The...

Round Table: Managed Futures / CTA

Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – There was plenty to talk about at HedgeNordic’s CTA round table. After two years of hosting the event in digital format,...

Does the Captain Still Fly?

By Harold de Boer – Transtrend: “How would the investment manager characterize the basic trading approach for this strategy? What percentage is ‘Discretionary’ and...