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Mikael Stenbom Beverly Chandler, Opalesque London: Delegates at The Opalesque 2013 Nordic Roundtable, sponsored by Estlander & Partners, Eurex and Taussig Capital discussed the evolution of the managed futures hedge fund strategy, or CTAs.
Mikael Stenbom of RPM opened the debate commenting that his firm has spent 20 years in this industry. "When we started in the early 1990s, the CTA industry was
dominated by U.S. based classical trend-followers." At the time, Stenbom reports that most of them had a mantra: "Never touch the system."
Stenbom continued: "Now, as it turned out in mid-90s, perhaps it would have been a smart idea to touch the
system because markets were and are changing, and that was when the European CTAs
entered the stage with a more scientific approach. In Europe we had Transtrend, AHL,
Winton, Aspect who quickly started to dominate the industry and, at least in terms of AuM,
still are."
Stenbom argues that now a new breed of managers is emerging. "These managers do not
have a background in trading the markets or from economics or financial studies. They
are often engineers, mathematicians or physicists, their passion is technology
more than trading, and they have acquired sets of skills tha...................... To view our full article Click here
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