Managed Futures for Institutional Investors
Managed Futures for Institutional Investors is an essential guide to institutional investing success. It walks you through the important questions that need to be addressed before investing in this asset class and contains helpful direction for investors during the investing process. It includes information on practices in the managed futures area and presents the various analytical tools and building blocks required to use managed futures effectively. The book also contains insight into the issues that must be addressed when building and evaluating portfolios.
Praise for Managed Futures for Institutional Investors
"Brian and Galen echo their wealth of experience and their access to a data set of unrivaled breadth to produce a useful and comprehensive guide to the managed futures industry. Topics are tackled responsibly and with great perspective. A useful guide for all managed futures investors."
― Leda Braga, PhD, President, BlueCrest Capital Management LLP
"As one of the only books to analytically address the effect of estimation error on inferences and decision making, this book is a must-read for any serious hedge fund investor. Building on their own long history of thoughtful research, Galen and Brian deliver an exceptionally clear exposition of the managed futures industry."
― Mark Carhart, PhD, CEO, Kepos Capital LP
"Burghardt and Walls' unique backgrounds of academic research combined with practical market experience make this book a required read for any institutional investor considering a managed futures investment."
― Tony Gannon, CEO, Abbey Capital Limited
"Galen Burghardt and Brian Walls have produced a superb book on managed futures. It is an accessible yet thoughtful and rigorous analysis of a much-misunderstood asset class by two of the very best experts in the field. The clarity of their explanations and the quality of their research are exceptional. Every institutional investor should own a copy."
― Ewan Kirk, PhD, CEO and Founder, Cantab Capital Partners
"This book is a fantastic introduction to managed futures. The research is of the highest quality, the topics are both broad and thoroughly researched, and the writing is clear and interesting. Galen and Brian have produced an indispensable resource for any serious investor."