CHICAGO, June 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the
world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and
BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions Group, recognized
top managed futures industry leaders at the eighth annual Managed
Futures Pinnacle Awards last night.
The winner of this year's Pinnacle Achievement Award is
Martin Lueck, most well-known for
his work on quantitative, model-based, trading strategies over the
past three decades. Lueck is Co-Founder and Research Director of
Aspect Capital, the $7.3 billion
systematic investment manager, where he oversees the team
responsible for generating and analyzing the fundamental research
hypotheses that power Aspect's range of investment programs.
Prior to Aspect, Lueck co-founded the firm Adam, Harding and
Lueck Ltd. (AHL, now owned by the Man Group plc.) in 1987 and was
instrumental in developing AHL's trading systems and approach to
research. He currently serves as Chair of the Oxford Physics
Development Board and as a Director on the Board of National
Futures Association.
He holds a master's degree with honors in physics from Christ
Church, Oxford.
More information about the awards and the winners, as well as a
video about their achievements, can be found at www.mfpawards.com.
The complete list of award recipients follows:
BEST SYSTEMATIC
CTA
|
|
2018 Best
Systematic CTA ($1 Billion+
AUM)
|
Bridgewater
Associates
|
2018 Best
Systematic CTA (Less than $1 Billion
AUM)
|
Salus Alpha
Capital
|
5-Year Best
Systematic CTA ($1 Billion+
AUM)
|
Man
AHL
|
5-Year Best
Systematic CTA (Less than $1 Billion
AUM)
|
Tiber
Capital
|
|
|
BEST DIVERSIFIED
CTA
|
|
2018 Best
Diversified CTA ($1 Billion+
AUM)
|
Bridgewater
Associates
|
2018 Best
Diversified CTA (Less than $1 Billion
AUM)
|
Salus Alpha
Capital
|
5-Year Best
Diversified CTA ($1 Billion+
AUM)
|
Man
AHL
|
5-Year Best
Diversified CTA (Less than $1 Billion
AUM)
|
Splendor Capital
Management
|
|
|
BEST LARGE CAP
CTA
|
|
2018 Best Large
Cap CTA ($5 Billion+
AUM)
|
Bridgewater
Associates
|
5-Year Best Large
Cap CTA ($5 Billion+
AUM)
|
IPM Informed
Portfolio Management
|
|
|
BEST SMALL CAP
CTA
|
|
2018 Best Small
Cap CTA (Less than $100 Million
AUM)
|
Deep Field
Capital
|
5-Year Best Small
Cap CTA (Less than $100 Million AUM)
|
Jaguar
Investments
|
|
|
BEST DISCRETIONARY
CTA
|
|
2018 Best
Discretionary CTA
|
RCMA
Capital
|
5-Year Best
Discretionary
CTA
|
Pan Capital
Management
|
|
|
BEST HYBRID
CTA
|
|
2018 Best Hybrid
CTA
|
Episteme
Capital
|
5-Year Best Hybrid
CTA
|
Splendor Capital
Management
|
|
|
BEST SINGLE SECTOR
CTA
|
|
2018 Best Single
Sector
CTA
|
Pearl Capital
Advisors
|
5-Year Best Single
Sector
CTA
|
Pan Capital
Management
|
|
|
BEST OPTIONS
STRATEGY
|
|
2018 Best Options
Strategy
|
Global Sigma
Group
|
5-Year Best
Options
Strategy
|
Warrington Asset
Management
|
|
|
BEST MULTI-ADVISOR
FUTURES FUND
|
|
2018 Best
Multi-Advisor Futures
Fund
|
Equinox
Funds
|
5-Year Best
Multi-Advisor Futures
Fund
|
LoCorr
Funds
|
|
|
BEST EMERGING
CTA
|
Royal Vision
Capital
|
THE PINNACLE ACHIEVEMENT
AWARD
Martin
Lueck
Research Director and Co-Founder, Aspect
Capital Inc.
Nominees were chosen based on quantitative data provided by
BarclayHedge for the various award categories. All data was
collected and analyzed by BarclayHedge. CME Group can neither
verify nor negate the accuracy of the data used to calculate
nominees and winners.
About CME Group
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace,
CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures,
options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze
data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently
manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer
the widest range of global benchmark products across all major
asset classes based on interest rates, equity
indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural
products and metals. The company offers futures and
options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed
income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the
EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's
leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME
Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and
services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group
also offers optimization and reconciliation services through
TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.
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About Backstop-BarclayHedge
Backstop Solutions Group's mission is to help the institutional
investment industry use time to its fullest potential. We develop
technology to simplify and streamline otherwise time-consuming
tasks and processes, enabling our clients to quickly and easily
access, share, and manage the knowledge that's critical to their
day-to-day business success. Backstop provides its industry-leading
cloud-based productivity suite to investment consultants, pensions,
funds of funds, family offices, endowments, foundations, private
equity, hedge funds, and real estate investment firms.
BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop, currently maintains data
on more than 6,900 hedge funds, funds of funds, and CTAs. The
BarclayHedge Indices are utilized by institutional investors,
brokerage firms, and private banks worldwide as performance
benchmarks for the hedge fund and managed futures industries.
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