18.12.2014 - Commodity crush fuels managed futures returns
Managed futures continued their recent hot streak in November, recording their best monthly return in four years by capitalizing on plummeting commodity prices. “We’ve seen resources get crushed and different markets pull back and this strategy is taking advantage of that situation,” said Tim Pickering, chief investment officer at Auspice Capital Advisors Ltd. in Calgary. Managed futures — or commodity trading advisor (CTA) funds as they are also known — are investment funds that provide long and short exposure to globally traded futures contracts on physical commodities such as grains, livestock, metals and energy, soft commodities like coffee, cotton, sugar and cocoa, and financial assets such as equity market indexes, government bonds and currencies...........................................Full Article: Source
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