CME Group Podcast

Robert Kosowski (Ph.D.) a researcher in finance and risk management at Imperial College, London, discusses the relationship between hedge fund size and performance.

Antoine Haddad, Bainbridge Partners, discusses the evolution of asset allocation and enhanced diversification opportunities in cross-asset class risk premia.

Kathryn Kaminski (Ph.D.), a researcher and author, with the Institute for Financial Research in Stockholm and affiliated faculty at the Stockholm School of Economics answers questions about the managed futures space in a series of short conversations.

Chris holds multiple World Records for endurance events, including his most recent accomplishment of running for 77 miles in 12 hours on a treadmill.

Chris Solarz, Managing Director at Cliffwater LLC, offers an institutional investor perspective on the performance of CTAs, discusses tail risk, and provides some insight into the current interest rate environment.

The heads of risk at a major foundation and at the largest derivatives exchange in the world discuss the risk ecosystem and risk management at multiple levels.

Chris Rapcewicz, Ph.D., Head of Risk and Operations, Helmsley Charitable Trust, and Sasha Rozenberg, Ph.D., Head of Risk Management, CME Group, moderated by Samantha Azzarello, CME Group

Audio recording of our live webcast hosted on January 9, 2014. Grain analysts discuss their expectations for the January 10 USDA Grain Stocks & Crop Production Reports from the CBOT trading floor. 

The panel includes:

• Dr. Bill Tierney, AgResource Company

• Terry Roggensack, The Hightower Report 

• Greg Wagner, GWX Ag Advisors

Tim Pickering of Auspice Capital discusses the CTA Value Added Index and makes a case that it is evident, historically, not only in times of financial crisis.

Ryan Abrams, Assistant Portfolio Manager at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) provides a framework for manager performance and what exactly hedge fund managers provide.