Abraham Trading Company
Since 1988, Abraham Trading Company has offered professional money management by trading futures markets around the world. Abraham Trading Company’s highly diversified portfolio, which consists of a 60% physical commodity exposure, combined with our long-term experience has resulted in a 20-year annualized ROR of 21.88%. www.abrahamtrading.com
Advantage Futures
Advantage Futures is a premier futures brokerage firm for professional, institutional, and active individual traders with best-in-class clearing and execution services provided with high-quality client service and technologically efficient solutions. Advantage Futures has processed over one billion contracts since its inception in June 2003. www.advantagefutures.com
AlphaMetrix, LLC
AlphaMetrix is an innovative financial services company which specializes in the operation of a real-time electronic managed account platform, through which investors have direct access to top tier niche trading managers, with the added benefits of live transparency, real-time risk monitoring, notional funding, limited liability, extensive research and due diligence, and preferred liquidity terms.
Alston & Bird LLP
Alston & Bird LLP is a full-service law firm with 800 attorneys providing a full range of services to domestic and international clients. Our alternative investment group has substantial experience in the structuring, formation and management of hedge funds, publicly-offered and privately placed commodity pools, and private equity funds. We represent a broad range of clients employing a wide variety of alternative investment strategies, from well-established fund managers to those just entering the business. Alston & Bird ranked 5th in the U.S. on The BTI Consulting Group’s first “Masters of the Deal” list of firms excelling in transactional relationships.
Arthur Bell, Certified Public Accountants
Arthur Bell Certified Public Accountants provides audit, tax, accounting and consulting services to the hedge fund, securities, and managed futures industries. Our clients include investment partnerships, advisors and principals. For more than 30 years, our excellent client service has earned us an internationally recognized reputation within our industry.
Aviva Capital Management
Aviva Capital Management is a GIPS® compliant, SEC registered investment management advisor with an added focus in institutional, income-driven asset management. ACM manages assets for life insurance and annuity companies, re-insurance companies and institutional clients.
ACM is a subsidiary of Aviva USA, and claims compliance with the Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS®).
Bode & Associates, Inc.
Bode & Associates is a public relations boutique dedicated to helping financial services providers develop and implement their marketing communications programs. From press relations, to logo and Web site development, to advertising, Bode & Associates helps clients maximize productivity by generating awareness of their products and services among key market segments.
Campbell & Company, Inc.
Campbell & Company, Inc., located in Towson, Maryland, is now in its 36th year of managing alternative investment portfolios. Campbell & Company manages approximately $7.5 billion in assets, including accounts for some of the largest and most sophisticated financial institutions in the world. Over half of Campbell’s 150 person staff is involved in research & technology which drives the firm’s commitment to a systematic discipline.
Chesapeake Capital Corporation
CME Group
CME Group is an entity formed by the merger of CME and CBOT. We bring more than 250 years of expertise to the global marketplace, and are the largest and most diverse exchange in the world. CME Group provides innovative products that cover all major asset classes, and technologies to manage risk more effectively.
DLA Piper US LLP
DLA Piper is a leading global legal services provider with more than 3,700 lawyers in 25 countries and 64 offices throughout the U.S., the UK, Continental Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. We serve clients ranging from multinational, Global 1000 and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies. Through our offices worldwide, we practice in commercial, corporate, finance, human resources, litigation, real estate, regulatory and legislative, tax and technology, media and communications law. We believe that when it comes to the way we serve and interact with our clients, everything matters.
Eclipse Capital Management, Inc.
Eclipse Capital Management, Inc. is an alternative investment management firm specializing in the research, development, and management of quantitative, model-driven trading strategies. Eclipse Capital provides absolute return investment strategies that include managed futures, global macro, tactical trading, and asset allocation to a global clientele of institutional, retail, and private investors. Founded in 1983, Eclipse Capital is based in St. Louis.
Eurex
Eurex, the international derivatives, futures and options exchange, offers global electronic access to a broad range of highly liquid international benchmark derivatives. With market participants connected worldwide and an average daily trading volume of more than 7.5 million contracts, Eurex is the market place of choice for the derivatives community.
Fortis Clearing Americas, LLC
Fortis Clearing Americas, located in Chicago, is a general clearing member on over 25 global exchanges including all major U.S. securities and derivatives exchanges with additional access to 19 other international exchanges via established third-party relationships. Fortis Clearing Americas is dedicated to servicing professional investors.
IntercontinentalExchange (ICE)
IntercontinentalExchange® (NYSE: ICE) operates global futures exchanges and electronic over-the-counter markets. ICE’s electronic markets are delivered on the ICE platform, and include futures based on crude oil and emissions, agricultural commodities and 40 currency pair contracts. ICE is the exclusive home to the U.S. Dollar Index® and U.S. Russell Index futures. ICE’s global platform brings participants in 55 countries together with benchmark contracts and high-speed trading technology in one marketplace. www.theice.com
John W. Henry & Company, Inc.
John W. Henry & Company, Inc. (JWH®), founded in 1982 by John W. Henry, is an alternative asset manager that is one of the longest established managed futures advisors in the world. Utilizing global markets in foreign exchange, financial futures and commodities, JWH historically has generated returns non-correlated to those of equity and fixed income investments. The firm manages assets for retail, institutional and private investors in the Americas, Europe and Asia. JWH’s six investment programs, and funds for which JWH acts as manager or co-manager, offer investors a wide variety of investment solutions to suit various portfolios and investment strategies.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
The Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Financial Services Practice represents many of the world’s premier hedge funds and money managers, major investment and commercial banks, leading firms and insurance companies, and several international exchanges. Our attorneys are at the leading edge of the global marketplace and regularly counsel clients on the latest innovations in financial products and business strategy and the latest changes in the regulatory environment.
MF Global
Through MF Global’s clearing membership on the New York Mercantile Exchange and its ring-dealing membership on the London Metal Exchange, MF Global’s Metals Team participates directly on the world’s two largest metal exchanges. The 50-person LME team's reputation is based on superior performance in the core functions of market-making, order execution, trade clearing, and contract administration. MF Global's customers include the principal producers, processors, consumers, and dealers of the traded metals in all geographical regions. In addition, a significant portion of MF Global’s extensive client portfolio consists of professional investors such as commodity trading advisors and hedge fund managers.
Navigant Consulting
Navigant Consulting’s Financial Services practice assists clients in banking, capital markets, asset management, and insurance to address key business issues. Areas of specialty include risk & regulatory compliance; operational & technology consulting; finance & accounting services; data & information management; transaction reconciliation; discovery support services; and dispute resolution & litigation support.
Newedge
Newedge offers a full range of clearing and execution services covering options and futures contracts for financial products and commodities, as well as for money market instruments, bonds, FX, equities, and commodities on OTC markets. Newedge provides a range of value added services, including prime brokerage, asset financing, an electronic platform for trading and order routing, cross margining, and the centralized reporting of client portfolios. Newedge gives its institutional clients access to over 70 markets and has a presence in 25 major global financial centers.
New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
NYMEX is the world’s leading energy and metals futures marketplace, providing global benchmark prices and comprehensive risk management instruments for hedging in both physical and cash settled markets. All Exchange products are available virtually 24 hours a day on the CME Globex® electronic platform, with its physically delivered contracts also available via open outcry.
O'Connor Davies Financial Services, LLC
O’Connor Davies Financial Services (ODFS) assists Alternative Investment clients in using sound practices to gain competitive advantage. Our highly experienced consultants provide risk management, due diligence and compliance services. Our unique approach leverages your existing strengths to meet investor demands for greater transparency, attract new capital, and grow the enterprise value of your firm.
Rabar Market Research
Founded in 1988 by Paul Rabar, Rabar Market Research, Inc. is one of the longest standing and most well-established managers in the Managed Futures Industry.Rabar utilizes proprietary, quantitative, computer-based systems to trade in over 90 futures markets across the globe. Rabar's methodologies have been developed and enhanced over a period of years through a sophisticated and proprietary research platform led and developed by Paul Rabar and a team of research personnel.
R.J. O'Brien
Founded in 1914, R.J.O'Brien & Associates (RJO) is one of the few privately owned futures commission merchants left in the industry. RJO services a nationwide network of more than 250 introducing brokers and some of the world's largest financial, industrial and agricultural institutions. RJO is a founding member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, a full clearing member of the CBOT, NYMEX, NYBOT, COMEX, EUREX, LIFFE, ICE and offers the latest in order entry technology coupled with 24-hour execution and clearing on every futures exchange worldwide.
Ropes & Gray LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP provides comprehensive legal services to leading businesses and individuals around the world. Clients benefit from expertise combined with unwavering standards for integrity, service, and responsiveness. With offices in preeminent centers of finance, technology and government, Ropes & Gray is ideally positioned to address today’s most pressing legal and business issues.
Rothstein Kass
Rothstein Kass is a premier financial services firm, recognized nationally as a top service provider to the alternative investment industry. Rothstein Kass provides traditional audit and tax services, strategic business consulting, insurance and risk management consulting, along with executive search and family office services.
Sidley Austin LLP
Sidley Austin is consistently recognized as having a premier, global practice in structuring and advising investment funds and their managers, serving virtually every type of investment fund and investment manager as well as numerous other market participants. For 2006 and 2007, Sidley ranked as the number one onshore hedge fund law firm by Institutional Investor’s Alpha magazine.
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
Sonnenschein’s Fund Services Group provides a full range of legal services and capabilities to the alternative investment industry, particularly hedge funds. We advise clients on all aspects of the sector from initial fund formation, organizational structuring, and regulatory compliance, through complex restructurings and transactional representation. Our practice specializes in matters that demand extensive experience and a high level of sophistication. Drawing seamlessly upon the expertise across the firm’s national practices, we provide business-focused counsel to effectively and efficiently meet each clients individual needs in an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
SSARIS Advisors, LLC
SSARIS Advisors designs, structures and implements managed futures and multi-manager hedge fund strategies for institutional and private investors. SSARIS is a joint venture between State Street Global Alliance LLC, a majority-owned subsidiary of State Street Global Advisors and a minority-owned affiliate of the Dutch pension fund, ABP, the third largest in the world, and the principals at SSARIS.
Sunrise Capital Partners, LLC
Sunrise Capital Partners, established in 1980, manages over $1.0 billion in client and proprietary assets. Sunrise offers diversified trading in the foreign exchange and futures markets, utilizing a variety of trading methods, which provide clients with systematic diversification and high risk-reward returns. The company offers investment opportunities in domestic and offshore funds.
Welton Investment Corporation
Welton is a quantitative hedge fund manager specializing in managed futures and global macro strategies. Our investment philosophy relies on using scientific methods to uncover and harness persistent market drivers to generate long-term returns. Our Global Directional Portfolio program (GDP) seeks to preserve the noncorrelated traits of managed futures, while also delivering composite-like, top-tier performance.
Winston & Strawn LLP
Winston & Strawn is an international law firm with 950 attorneys among 11 offices. Our depth and reach enables us to manage virtually every type of business-related legal issue. We serve enterprises of all types and work to understand our clients’ organizations, objectives, and the level of involvement they need.
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