[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]“CTAs Turn to Fundamental Models in Search for Diversification”
Hedge Funds Review
April 2, 2012
Selected excerpts:[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][text-with-icon icon_type=”font_icon” icon=”icon-quote-left” color=”Accent-Color”]“A growing number of commodity trading advisers (CTAs) believe fundamental strategies can help improve the return profile of trend-following managed futures programs.”[/text-with-icon][text-with-icon icon_type=”font_icon” icon=”icon-quote-left” color=”Accent-Color”]“Patrick Welton, CEO and CIO at Welton, cites analytic diversity as one obvious benefit of including fundamental models within a diversified managed futures program. ‘You always benefit from having a variety of inputs and analytical approaches for arriving at trading positions, assuming they are at least as effective as the core approach,’ he says.”[/text-with-icon][text-with-icon icon_type=”font_icon” icon=”icon-quote-left” color=”Accent-Color”]“‘Fundamental models are one of the pathways to diversification,’ says Welton. ‘They are particularly useful because the analytic frameworks and inputs for fundamental models can be quite diverse.’”[/text-with-icon][/vc_column][/vc_row]
