Managed Futures Education Center

Managed Futures Investor Protections Deserve National Spotlight

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...