FTC Futures Fund Classic
The classic managed futures strategy by FTC, continuously developed since 1994, as an Alternative Investment Fund compliant with the AIFM directive of the EU. The fund is domiciled in Luxembourg and dedicated to improve the risk/return characteristics of traditional stock and bond portfolios.
FTC Futures Fund Classic : Performance(1)
| Share Class | |
|---|---|
| LU0082076828 (B EUR) | 5/17/19 |
| NAV | 16.31 |
| Day | 0.87% |
| Month | -0.91% |
| Year to Date | -0.73% |
| 1 Year | -12.03% |
| 3 Years | -11.41% |
| 5 Years | 14.78% |
| Share Class | |
|---|---|
| LU0550775927 (B USD) | 5/17/19 |
| NAV | 8.77 |
| Day | 0.80% |
| Month | -0.68% |
| Year to Date | 0.69% |
| 1 Year | -9.02% |
| 3 Years | -2.66% |
| 5 Years | 28.78% |
(1) Past performance is no reliable indicator for future results. Main share class EUR B (LU0082076828) was launched on May 1, 1998); performance before launch date is based on a forerunner product with similar trading strategy. Share class USD: Launch date 19 Oct. 2010. Performance data consider all fees within the fund but no individual transaction costs of the investor, front end load (4.5% max.) or deposit fees.
FTC Futures Fund Classic may invest a significant share of its assets in exchange traded futures, demand deposits and term deposits with a maturity of 12 months or less.
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Investment Information
Asset Class Managed Futures
Managed futures, also known as CTAs (Commodity Trading Advisers), are alternative investment funds that emerged in the 1980s at the US commodity futures exchanges. The first managed futures funds, like the majority of successful managers today, had a clear profile: systematic, trend-following and focused on risk management.
Systematic, because investment decisions are strictly rule-based.
Trend-following means that trading positions are always opened in the direction of an already established price trend. CTAs do not try to anticipate market developments, but bet on the fact that an established trend continues rather than reverses.
Risk management is an indispensable and central component of any managed futures strategy, because unlike equities and bonds, one cannot simply buy, hold and wait when trading futures contracts. That's why CTAs spend significant ressources to keep risk at a manageable level at all times. This is achieved, among other things, by broadly diversifying trading positions in a wide range of markets and by adjusting position sizes to the current market volatility.
Managed Futures: Natural Protection Against Market Crises
Profits while Markets Crash
Whether during the Asian crisis of 1998, the bursting of the Internet stock bubble in the early 2000s, or the global financial crisis that began in 2007 with the collapse of the US mortgage securitisation market: When stock markets crashed, managed futures constantly generated record high returns.
Why this works
Managed futures were historically so reliable as a portfolio insurance, because market behavior in major crises were similar. Financial experts call it the "risk-off" mode, in which the majority of market participants avoid risk assets - equities, industrial commodities and non-dollar currencies - and flee to the so-called "safe havens" - government bonds with first-class credit ratings, gold and the US dollar. This herd behavior generates strong trends across almost all markets which can be perfectly exploited by trend-following managed futures, as all those asset classes are traded on modern futures exchanges and futures can benefit from both rising and falling prices.
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memorandum, annual reports, semi-annual reports, etc.) should be
studied carefully. All fund-specific documents can be ordered free of
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from the respective agent (representative) in countries where the funds
are registered for public distribution. On request we will announce
further institutions which provide fund specific documents as well as
the date of the last publication of the offering memorandum in Austria
or in jurisdictions in which the funds are authorised for public
distribution.
Authorisation for public distribution:
FTC Gideon I (AT0000499785): Austria, Germany
FTC Futures Fund Classic (LU0082076828): Austria, Luxembourg; in particular public distribution is not allowed in Germany or Switzerland
Information for the USA:
Investment products and information mentioned on the following pages are not intended for distribution in the US.
Therefore, they do not apply to US residents according to Rule 902,
Regulation S, Securities Act 1933 (in particular American citizens or
persons permanently
resident in the US).
Information for Germany:
Investment product FTC Futures Fund Classic and information mentioned on the following pages in
regard thereof are not intended for public distribution in Germany. In this respect the website does not address to citizens of Germany.
Information for Switzerland:
Investment products and information mentioned on the following pages in
regard to FTC Futures Fund Classic and FTC Gideon I are not intended for public
distribution in Switzerland. In this respect the website does not
address to citizens of Switzerland.
Risk disclaimer:
Every investment involves risks. Fund prices may rise or fall. Performance data refer to the past.
Past performance is no reliable indicator for future results.
In particular, capital preservation cannot be
guaranteed.
Investments in foreign currencies are subject to exchange rate
fluctuations and currency risks, which means that the performance of
such investments also depends on the volatility of the foreign
currency, which can have a negative influence on the capital invested.
Futures Funds: Investments in futures funds can be very profitable, but
they can also involve considerable risks that do not, or at least not
to the same extent, occur with traditional investment categories and
which can lead to a considerable loss, or at worst, the total loss of
the investment. Therefore, investors must be prepared and able to
accept a complete loss. When purchasing shares in futures funds, a
longer-term holding period should be intended with the primary purpose of
adding such funds to an existing diversified portfolio.
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