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Not accepting the managed futures status quo: Incline IM says small is a structural edge

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Matthias Knab, Opalesque for New Managers:

When Opalesque first wrote about Incline Investment Management in October 2022, the Nevada-based firm was running a two-engine systematic strategy with $23m and a decade of track record. Four years on, combined firm assets are around $130m, the track record of their flagship strategy, the Systematic Hybrid™, has passed fourteen years, and the two alpha engines have been enhanced by a third component: the introduction of box spreads to augment cash management. Their firm shows that being small is not a stage a manager passes through, but a structural edge worth defending.

Ted Parkhill, CEO, and Todd Hurlbut, CIO, spoke to us in October of 2026.

Matthias Knab: It's been a while since we talked. What's new from Incline Investment Management?

Ted Parkhill: We're still relatively small compared to some of the big players in the space, and our size is our advantage for a couple of key reasons. The first is that as a function of our size, we can trade some of the smaller commodity markets at full size. If you look back at our track record, 2024 and 2025 delivered solid performance. A significant contributing factor was some of the less traded commodity markets. For example, in 2024 ......................

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