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444 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10017
674 Third Ave., Suite 410, New York, NY 10017 212-557-3040 TX: 238-720 Fax: 212-983-1278
1420 K Street NW, Suite 510 Washington, DC 20005 5380 Fax: 202-682-5384
1435 Brickell Ave., Miami, FL 33131 305-358-4336 Fax: 305-358-4805
9465 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212 310-274-6256 Fax: 310-274-0212
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5075 Westheimer Road
The Galleria, Suite 1267, Houston, TX 77056 713-626-0007 Fax: 713-626-0013
Canadian Distributor
40 Esterel, Floor "E" P.O. Box 269
Place Bonaventure, Montreal, Que H5A 1B3 Canada514.392.9008 Fax: 514-392-9298 European Distributors:
62 S. Audley Street, London, WI England 071-629-0023 071-408-0287 TX:
8814-709 Fax: 071-629-9538
5 rue D'Artois 75008 Paris 43-59-07-21 TX: 642504FISP Fax: 42-56-28-35
New Zealand Distributor
3 Dell Avenue, Remuera, Auckland, New Zealand 09-529-1092 Fax: 09-524-2421
Surveillance Technology Group United States
540 W. Boston Post Road Mamaroneck, NY 10543 Tel:
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* You can now define recipient groups. When encrypting a message, you can select the entire group with a single mouse click.
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* Supports keys expiration to ensure that people are using the keys you want them to use.
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(202) 828-6040 - Fax: (202) 828-6041 E-mail: [email protected]
The Managed Funds Association is the only U.S.- based association of managed funds professionals. MFA is a national trade association of more than 690 members that represents the managed futures, hedge funds, and fund of funds industry throughout the world.
MFA membership is composed primarily of financial and commodity trading advisors, pool operators, and trading managers who are responsible for the management of the vast majority of the estimated $28 billion currently invested in managed futures, as well as significant amounts invested in hedge funds and other financial and commodity-linked investments.
The MFA's board of directors is elected by it's members, and additional appointed members are chosen by the board.
Much of the work of the Association is done by its committees.
Publications:
Reporter
$5.00 per issue - free to members.
The MFA Reporter is the Association's monthly newsletter which provides useful and timely information to managed funds professionals. Regular features address legal, accounting and tax issues as well as government relations initiatives. Other articles discuss issues, programs, news and trends of interest to those in the managed funds industry. Please specify which back issues you want or how many issues you want to subscribe for going forward.
Events in the History of the Managed Futures Industry by Thomas Northcote $5.00
per copy
This chronology records the important events and trends that have affected managed funds. From very modest beginnings as a cottage industry in the 1970s, the managed funds industry has grown into a significant factor in the world's financial markets, with approximately $35 billion under management.
Diversification for Global Stock and Bond Portfolios (March 1997) $1.00 per copy
This brief pamphlet sets forth the concept, supported by statistics over the last decade, that a portfolio which includes managed funds as an alternative asset will have positive expected returns which are non-correlated to existing equity and fixed income components.
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MFA Membership Directory (February 1997) $5.00 per copy - free to MFA members.
The Directory is a complete listing of MFA members, organized alphabetically, by company and by registration category. It also lists MFA officers, directors, committee chairpersons, and staff. The membership listing is updated annually.
Annual Report (1996) $5.00 per copy - free to MFA members
The Report discusses the year's highlights, regulatory accomplishments and other programs, and sets forth the financial position of the Association for the past fiscal year.
Foundation for Managed Derivatives Research Reports
Copies of the following studies, which have been funded by the Foundation, are available for $2.00 each:
"Managed Futures Trading and Futures Price Volatility", Scott Irwin and Satoko Yoshimaru, Ohio State University, completed in May 1996.
"How Do CTA's Return Characteristics Affect Their Likelihood of Survival?", Femando Diz, Syracuse University, completed in November 1996.
"Managed Futures, Hedge Fund and Mutual Fund Return: A Multi-Factor Approach", Thomas Schneeweis and Richard Spurgin, University of Massachusetts, completed in May 1997.
"Performance Persistence for Managed Futures", B. Wade Brorsen, Oklahoma State University, completed in September 1997 and updated April 1998.
"Do Managed Futures Make Good Investments?", Franklin Edwards, Columbia University (Work in progress, will be shipped when completed.
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CISDM -Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets
http://www.umass.edu/som/cisdm
CISDM - Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets Thomas Schneeweis, Director
School of Management University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 (413) 545-5641 - Fax: (413) 545-3858 E-mail: [email protected]
Take a visit to the World Wide Web site of the Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets at the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
CISDM (Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets) is a non-profit academic research center which focuses on security and investment fund performance in both U.S. and international asset markets. The goals of CISDM are to facilitate research in both traditional and alternative investment markets, to promote interactions between the academic and business communities, and to make available CISDM educational material on international financial markets to financial and non-financial firms.
To accomplish these tasks, CISDM funds research activities for faculty and students, sponsors an annual conferences which brings together both business professionals and finance Ph.D.'s from throughout the New England area, and publishes current CISDM research in international investment and derivatives. In addition, CISDM also keeps readers aware of new services and information sources offered by private and public organizations (including those on the World Wide Web) in the area of international financial markets. Lastly, CISDM publishes on the Web a series of publicly available passive and actively managed fund indices in the areas of equity, fixed-income, managed futures, and hedge fund investment.