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Managed Futures Investor Protections Deserve National Spotlight

Thursday, July 15, 2010

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The CFTC and its regulatory oversight structure (with the NFA) deserves national attention, something for the equity world to follow. For example, the bedrocks of "Bernie Madoff-like" fraud prevention -- account segregation, counter party surveillance and general transparency – warrant a national spotlight in how they have successfully thwarted fraud in managed futures, the primary investment opportunity to spawn from the futures and options markets. Intelligent regulation has generally provided the asset class legitimacy through performance auditing and requiring adherence to strict business standards. No investment is perfect. But these bedrock fraud prevention methods...

Buy and Hold Is Dead – Financial Planning Daily

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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The equity world is starting to understand that “buy and go to sleep might” might not be the best approach.   This article points to growing signs of questioning a core investment method that typically overlooked true asset diversification.  This line of questioning needs to be continued and those opposed to true asset diversification should [...]

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“Managed futures is one of the world’s non-correlated asset classes and should be considered in any modern portfolio. High-Performance Managed Futures shows investors how to succeed in this arena and does so in a logical and interesting format.”

— Scott Slutsky, author, Master of the Futures and The Complete Guide to Electronic Trading Futures; Managing Director, PFGBEST Global Service Division; Board of Directors, CME Group, Inc. PAC

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High Performance Managed Futures is the book for the managed futures industry, including commodity trading advisors (CTA), commodity pool operators (CPO) and other managed futures hedge funds, ETFs and managed futures mutual funds, authored by Mark H. Melin