It looks like another disaster has hit the Futures and Commodities industry with the recent freezing of accounts at PFGBEST.  This is a very unfortunate situation for clients that put their hard earned money to work in account believing that their funds were segregated only to find inconsistencies with the firm’s accounting.  Before and after...Read More

I think this is a rather naive Barron’s article on Managed Futures.  The Barclay’s CTA index has much higher turnover than the S&P 500 so funds that have the worst performance are usually eliminated from it which greatly distorts the return numbers.  This article also doesn’t even mention fees which I’d bet are quite high...Read More