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February 01, 2012

Last year proved difficult to describe. A common theme, though, was people power. Here we review the events of 2011...

Move over Cayman Islands

February 01, 2012

The Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA) announced in January that assets of Irish domiciled investment funds had reached a record high in 2011...

Terry Duffy: Staring down his biggest challenge

February 01, 2012

Terry Duffy defends CME Group against those he sees as trying to shift the focus from MF Global...

Managed futures mutual funds waiting for green light

February 01, 2012

Although demand is growing for managed futures mutual funds, regulators still need to harmonize rules to close the deal...

Top 25 people and events of 2011

January 24, 2012

We names our top 25 people and events of 2011...

Always have a back-up

January 01, 2012

One of the first recommendations we heard following the MF Global debacle was to have more than one broker...

CTAs on the front lines of the MF Global battle

January 01, 2012

While MF Global has strained the futures industry, CTAs have had unique headaches...

Bonds face problems abroad and at home

January 01, 2012

Interest rates are at historic lows and how governments react to crises likely will dictate their movements in 2012...

Peter Fisher: Managing risk in a volatile world

January 01, 2012

Peter Fisher, BlackRock’s global head of fixed income, understands interest rates. Here, we discuss recent trends...

CTAs MF Globaled!

December 01, 2011

Commodity trading advisors (CTAs) faced particular headaches over the MF Global bankruptcy...

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Trader Profiles

Blackheath’s sentiment is rising

February 01, 2012

Christopher Foster of Blackheath is featured in this month's Trader Profile...

Thomas: Parlaying experience into ‘mad’ success

January 01, 2012

This month's profile is The Mad Hedge Fund Trader, John Thomas...

GDP and the science of trading

December 01, 2011

Global Domain Partners is featured in this month's Trader Profile...

Bahadur’s final lesson

November 01, 2011

Nigel Bahadur, founder and sole principal of Structured Markets Inc...

Beach: Building a new business

October 01, 2011

Jean Mrha Beach is not your normal emerging commodity trading advisor...

Silicon Valley’s Levitt spreads his wings

September 01, 2011

Marc Levitt has been interested in trading and building quantitative models since taking graduate level courses in chaos theory...

Jamali: Building team Auctos

August 01, 2011

From a young age Kevin Jamali, founder and co-principal of Auctos Capital Management, saw the best trading can offer as well as the worst...

Henk Grobler: Out of Africa

July 01, 2011

For as long as he can remember, South African trader Henk Grobler has been fascinated by markets...

Dave Stone proving his mettle

May 01, 2011

When Dave Stone walked onto the floor of the New York exchange, he thrived on being "in the ring"...

Rulle’s of distribution

April 01, 2011

Michael Rulle is an emerging commodity trading advisor (CTA) with 30 years of experience in the trading business, most recently serving as president of a CTA with as much as $8 billion under management...

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Top 10 currency CTAs.

In the April issue of Futures we focus on forex markets. Here are the top 10 currency/forex focused CTA programs over the last 12 months through February 2011 with a minimum history of 36 months.

Name	12-month return	CAR#
24FX Management Ltd.	105.4	28.76
MIGFX	28.07	34.75
QFS Asset Mgmt.	27.96	13.05
IKOS FX Fund	22.61	19.80
GTA Group	22.22	17.50
Ortus Cap. Mgmt.	21.04	14.18
Anello Asset Mgmt.	17.69	11.04
Metro Forex Inc.	13.93	23.43
CenturionFX Ltd.	13.65	48.04
Harmonic Capital	13.15	7.06