Maybe we should take a while to write up our 2016 review every year, as the weeks it’s taken us to analyze how 2015 played out and what 2016 might look like have seen managed futures do quite well, thank you. We were half tempted to just say the 2016 outlook is – more of this:

But, alas… we can’t forecast how asset classes will perform the rest of 2016 any better than Goldman Sachs can forecast where Oil prices are going. It’s pure folly to pretend otherwise. What we can do is analyze the market landscape of and conditions of 2015 and discuss whether those conditions will persist, reverse course, or yield to different conditions in the 2016. That’s what we’re up to in our annual Outlook whitepaper:  the Managed Futures 2016 Outlook.

Take a step inside the engine room of Managed Futures returns, to see where volatility might fall across dozens of markets, whether the continued commodity sell off might be beneficial or harmful to Managed Futures, and other scenarios that might make or break performance in 2016 – like what’s in store for bond markets, the U.S. Dollar, and binary outcomes resulting from government/central bank intervention.

(Disclaimer: Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results)

P.S. – this is the volatility expansion/contraction for the futures markets over the past decade. Download the whitepaper to understand how we came up with this numbers, and how to read the chart.