Managed Futures Account
Are you looking to diversify your portfolio? Interested in a futures investment, but want a professional to do the trading for you? An alternative investment through Lind-Waldock Managed Futures may be just what you seek.
A managed futures account, run by a professional money manager known as a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA), offers exposure to a wide array of financial and physical commodity futures markets traded around the world. Lind-Waldock's CTA Rankings Site delivers performance data about the CTAs who trade these accounts on your behalf. You can even open an account through an IRA.
When you choose Lind Managed Futures, you'll get the freedom of not having to monitor every market and every news headline. Your chosen commodity trading advisor will do the work for you. And, you get a name you can trust with Lind-Waldock. For more than 40 years, we’ve been the futures broker of choice for tens of thousands of investors. And we're backed by a multi-billion dollar financial services parent company—MF Global Inc. We know futures, and we pride ourselves on service that's a step above and beyond the rest.
Reduce Portfolio Volatility with Commodity Futures
Many investors choose managed futures to reduce volatility in their overall investment portfolio. There's a relatively low correlation between the performance of managed futures and stock prices or interest rates. Through a managed futures investment, you'll have access to futures markets around the globe. Commodity trading advisors invest in financial futures, including stock indexes such as the Standard & Poor's 500 or the Nikkei 225, interest rate vehicles such as U.S. Treasury notes or the German bund, or currencies such as the euro or yen. Traditional commodity markets traded include crude oil, gold, wheat or soybeans.
Unlike other asset classes, where profits depend solely on price appreciation, opportunities in commodity futures trading exist in both rising and falling markets. Strategies using options on futures contracts seek to provide profit potential in flat or neutral markets. Learn more about managed futures, and read academic research.
Use Managed Accounts for Your Search
When you choose a managed futures investment, you delegate responsibility for your decision making to a professional money manager. There are literally hundreds of CTAs offering hundreds of managed futures programs. Most are diversified, but some specialize in particular industry sectors, such as financial or agricultural markets.
You can do your own research by visiting Lind-Waldock’s CTA Rankings Site. It has information to assist you in making an educated decision. Register and you'll have free and unlimited access to standardized performance profiles of more than 100 professional money managers.
Managed Futures – A Subset of Hedge Funds
As an alternative investment, managed futures are often considered a subset of hedge funds. However, unlike many hedge funds, they concentrate in futures markets—not trading in cash equities. That can offer you an added layer of diversification to your traditional equity portfolio. Both hedge funds and managed futures can take long and short positions in a variety of global markets. But if you are looking for specific exposure to the futures markets, with the added security of primarily exchange-traded markets, managed futures may be the right choice for you.
Open An Account
To get started right away, download our account forms. Or, learn more about how to open an account and receive the Lind-Waldock Welcome Kit.
Contact Managed Futures Today!
For more information, call us at 800-452-1030 or 312-788-2985, email cdannenhauer@lind-waldock.com or fill out the form below and a representative will be in touch.
