Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA)

RPM Risk & Portfolio Management, the Stockholm based CTA/Macro specialist, is launching a Luxembourg domiciled Sicav - RPM Evolving CTA - which aims to invest in CTAs identified as being in the "most competitive stage of development".

Commodity Trading Advisors (CTA) were the worst performers of all hedge fund strategies last month, despite some hedge funds making good returns with this strategy in the first half of the year.

Institutional investors fear a ‘tail risk event' in the next12 months, but are unsure what strategy would be effective protection against it, according to research from State Street Global Advisors.

Aquantum, the managed futures start-up in Munich says its computer-driven investment strategy will differ in a sector becoming too large for the markets.