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by Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London:

Last year’s survey of US institutions and financial advisers from Morningstar revealed that 66% of financial advisors believed that alternatives would become as or more important than traditional investments over the next five years.

Investment managers Altegris report that financial advisors awarded top ranks to managed futures strategies as offering the greatest growth potential through 2015 amongst alternative strategies. In their latest White Paper, entitled 'Managed Futures: Is the Trend Your Friend?’ Altegris says: "The appeal of managed futures is that they have shown their ability to thrive in up and down markets."

Altegris believes that another advantage of managed futures is the wide breadth of markets in which the managers can invest with the ability to go long and short in all four asset classes (stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities) across 150 global markets.

The firm estimates that some 75% of managed futures managers manage money in a trend following strategy, seeking to capture the majority of a market trend up or down for profits across the asset classes. They may invest using proprietary or fully automated technical trading systems based on a highly objective and disciplined set of rules predefined by the fund manager and strictly adhered to.

Altegris believes that herein lies a serious difference between traditional money managers and managed futures managers. "So unlike traditional money......................

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