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How Managed Futures Can Put You Back in the Black
While every investment asset class struggled mightily during 2008 – the U.S. stock market alone eradicated $7 trillion in shareholder wealth in its worst year since the Great Depression – managed futures provided investors with a significant bright spot last year.
Managed futures programs – alternative-investment vehicles that enabled professional money managers to take positions in a wide variety of securities and derivatives – posted strong returns in a year that was marked mostly by investment losses. The average managed futures program returned about 14%, according to the Barclay CTA Index, and 11.4% as measured by the Stark…
25Jun2009 | Money Morning | 1 comment | ContinuedU.S. Market Crisis: Paulson saves the day
Oh, good, I was worried there for a minute. But the government says it’s going to make sure we never have another mortgage crisis. Hoorah!
And how, exactly, is it going to do that? Well, Treasury Secretary Mark Paulson has an idea: Shuffle oversight entities around to cut out redundancy.
Yes, dear friends, we don’t have to worry about securitization or evil banks trying to turn a profit when you borrow money from them ever again because Paulson is making sure that the SEC joins forces with the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and he wants to unite the Office…
31Mar2008 | Stephanie Grimmett | Comments Off | Continued
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