Press Releases
11/02/2011FTC funds not affected by MF Global bankruptcyAs reported in various media MF Global Holdings Ltd. Based in New York has filed for Chapter 11 on October 31st. The bankruptcy case was opened at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York. ...more |
08/18/2011New management team in Research & DevelopmentFTC brings two international top-quants to Vienna. FTC Capital, specializing in quantitative investment strategies, is strengthening its Research & Development division with two renowned specialists. ...more |
04/16/2010FTC Capital sweeps the Alternative Investments Award: Triple top spots for managed futures from FTCFTC, the leading Austrian asset manager for systematic and quantitative investment strategies dominated the "managed futures" category in this year's "Alternative Investments Award" (AIA) organized by Austria's GELD MAGAZIN. Already last month the FTC Futures Fund Dynamic made the short list of the best seven managed futures products at the "European Performance Award 2010" in London - professionals journal HFM Week's annual awards for the best European hedge funds. ...more |
01/20/2010FTC Capital is concentrating asset management in Vienna: now 100 per centFTC, Austria's specialist in managed futures, is concentrating all the group's activities in Vienna with immediate effect. The offshore management subsidiary is being closed. From February, FTC is also presenting important new products. Among other innovations, the flagship product FTC Futures Fund Classic will offer daily liquidity. ...more |
01/14/2010FTC Update 12/2009: Investor letter from FTC CEO Eduard Pomeranz
The main feature of December was a strong correction in the foreign exchange markets, which ultimately also contributed to the biggest loss to date for a single calendar year in our diversified futures funds. In light of this, and also because I feel it is more suitable at the end of the year, I will review the results for 2009 in detail. ...more |
12/02/2009FTC Futures Fund Dynamic: Two top 20 places in global CTA rankingsFrom more than 500 Managed Futures products, the FTC Futures Fund Dynamic was ranked in the top twenty in both the three and five-year windows as of the end of the third quarter of 2009. This is the result of the recently published "Barclay Managed Funds Report". ...more |
09/23/2009FTC equity strategy Gideon I: The new long-short approach at work
As promised, FTC's trend-following fund-of-funds strategy has survived the crisis months on the world markets since 2008 much better in comparison with conventional equity funds. Since February 2009, FTC has been applying an additional long-short overlay in Gideon I. ...more |
01/14/2009FTC's year in review: all strategies prove to be world-beatersFTC's funds stood up extremely well to the exceptional year that was 2008. The futures strategies as well as the systematic stocks fund of funds FTC Gideon I were among the world's best in terms of performance and risk. ...more |
10/09/2008FTC futures funds: highly positive in the first three quartersWith hedge funds largely returning negative yields in year two of the ongoing credit crunch, practically the only investment sector to witness considerable growth has been managed futures. Internationally, FTC's funds once again rank among the best-performing products in this asset class. ...more |
09/03/2008FTC futures funds innovations: extended trading systems, lower starting capitalThe last six months have seen the trading systems of FTC's managed futures funds extended and the threshold for follow-up investments standardized. Further innovations are likely to come into effect in the coming weeks. ...more |
03/18/2008Alternative Investment Awards 2008: triple gold for FTC
Managed futures products took top honours no fewer than three times at the Austrian Alternative Investment Awards 2008. The risk-adjusted performances of the FTC Futures Fund Dynamic notched up two first places over one and three-year windows, while FTC Commodity Fund Alpha, which was launched as recently as spring 2005, came top in its class (also for the best Sharpe Ratio over a one-year window). ...more |
01/16/2008FTC's futures funds enjoy positive year: zero correlation myth resurfacesFTC's futures funds enjoyed an outstanding 2007: the company's products delivered performance figures of between 14 and 27 percent, once again putting them among the best-performing products in the international systematic managed futures sector. And the myth of zero correlation between managed futures and stocks could once again be confirmed. ...more |
12/04/2007FTC Futures-top spot for international funds rankingFunds managed by FTC top the international performance tables, released in the December issue of "FUTURES Magazine" - the prime publication for the Managed Futures Industry. ...more |
06/19/2007FTC Update: Managed Futures & Stocks - a volatile relationshipOwing to a virtual zero correlation with traditional asset classes in the long term, Managed Futures are often regarded as a type of "portfolio insurance". It's a metaphor that may not be wrong - but it's not absolutely correct, either, as the FTC Futures Fund Classic illustrates. ...more |
06/04/2007FTC Futures Funds: Strong monthly performance in May and a new historical all time highOn May 31st the FTC Futures Fund Classic reached the highest monthly closing value since February 2003 as well as a daily all time high with 1.681 points. Furthermore April's performance of the FTC Managed Futures Funds secured top spots in international rankings. ...more |
03/28/2007Triple Gold inThe FTC Futures Fund Dynamic yielded the best risk-adjusted two-year return in its investment class (high-risk Managed Futures). In the guarantee products category, the Raiffeisen Lower Austria/Vienna group's two Raiffeisen Dynamic Garant bonds (I and II), whose underlying is the FTC Futures Fund Dynamic, took top honors over a three-year window (low and high-risk classes). Futures products based on FTC trading systems also racked up three second places and two third places at the "Alternative Investment Awards" 2007, which were held at the Uniqa Tower in Vienna yesterday evening. Among the winners was the FTC Commodity Fund Alpha, the commodity fund launched in 2005, which was classified for the first time and which immediately took second place in the rankings over a one-year period (high-risk Managed Futures). ...more |
11/30/2006FTC Futures-Funds: Top-5 x 3Futures Magazine just released it’s December issue with the performance rankings of the Managed Futures industry for October 2006. Products of the Vienna based management firm FTC are ranked second, third and fifth. FTC Commodity Fund Alpha additionally achieved the fifth rank on the year-to-date chart for the running year. ...more |
10/09/2006Raiffeisen and FTC offer a new type of guaranteed bond: Up to 100 % Participation of commodity futuresRaiffeisen Landesbank Niederösterreich-Wien presents the "Raiffeisen Commodity α Garant". The innovative fallback concept of this product is for the first time offered to public in Austria. Developed by Goldman Sachs it allows for up to 100 % participation from the dynamic underlying: a long-short commodity fund. ...more |