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Questions raised by investors in CTAs have become more sophisticated

Monday, July 27, 2015

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Katy Kaminski
Komfie Manalo, Opalesque Asia:

Katy Kaminski from Campbell & Company, a CTA with more than 40 years of experience, noted during the recent Baltimore Opalesque Roundtable, that her firm had been receiving plenty of phone calls and emails as of late as CTAs "have recently gone from out of favor to being quite in favor."

She added, "One of the things that we are definitely seeing is that people are asking more questions. We need to provide more education. Explaining quantitative strategies is never easy. That’s even more challenging with systematic, quantitative strategies that have automated algorithmic trading, and things like this that are foreign to many investors. So this is definitely an interesting area to be focused."

She added that Campbell is also getting more of a partnership with investors, "they really need us to partner with them on educating their investment committees, pension boards, clients, and any number of different audiences." Her firm also helps them "understand what kind of exposures they have, so that they can understand how to use investments and their portfolios a little bit more effectively."

Over the last 10 years, the level of questions raised by investors has become more sophisticated, she said, and the granularity of detail required has increased substantially. Investors now want better understanding ......................

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