CME Group Podcast

Kapil Rostagi, Managing Partner at PlusPlus Capital Management, provides insights into short-term systematic trading including key attributes, biggest misconceptions & challenges, benefits of having short-term traders in a portfolio, diversification that short-term traders add, and why we haven't seen more short-term traders in the CTA universe.

The Managed futures/CTA allocation journey continues for Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois. Now that TRS of Illinois has been allocating to managed futures for several months, Brennan Basnicki (Investment Officer) provides an update on how the team and board feel about their allocation decision last year, the performance they’ve seen thus far, and outlook for the future.

Sol Waksman, Founder & President, BarclayHedge provides an overview of the Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards and the process BarclayHedge uses to select managers within their database for nomination – leveraging an approach based on institutional investor feedback.

Pimco was one of the pioneers in the strategy known as Portable Alpha. Since they have been executing the strategy for decades, first with Treasury Bonds and then with other products like equities, we thought it might be beneficial to revisit the strategy that has garnered so much attention (and assets) over the years. This podcast reviews the basics of portable alpha and explores the prerequisites necessary for successfully implementing a portable alpha strategy. And who better to discuss the strategy than with the individual that is responsible for a large amount of assets deployed in the strategy—PIMCO’s Sabrina Callin.

Brennan Basnicki, CFA, CMT Senior Analyst - Absolute Return with the Teachers Retirement System of the State of Illinois, takes the listener through the step by step process they used when deciding to allocate to managed futures through CTAs. This podcast includes dealing with the board, the educational element and due dilignence matters.