The best alternatives link today has to be the link to the Alts & Income Virtual Summit. That’s right, it’s a virtual conference where anyone on the internet can go and listen to online presentations, connect and network with others listening to the conference, as well as answer poll questions during the presentations.

The first presentation “How to Navigate the Current Alternative Landscape,” was keynoted by Nadia Papagiannis in her new role as Director of Alternative Investment Strategy for Goldman Sachs Asset Management. For more on Nadia and her previous alternative investments presentations, see here.

There are 6 more presentations throughout the day.

“The Role of Currencies, Commodities, and other Hard Assets”

“Liquid Fund Alternatives: Tradition to Trends”

“Finding the Right Balance with Multi-Asset Solutions”

“Unconstrained Fixed Income: Out of the Box Income Opportunities Today”

“Redefining Retirement Income”

“Walking the Yield Curve in an Uncertain Rate Environment”

If you do head over to the virtual summit – but find your brain wandering… here’s some links to wander to on your second monitor.

Education:

Managed-Futures Funds Still Popular – (Wall Street Journal)

26 years of 5yr note futures — The Basics of US Treasury Futures – (CME Group)

Performance:

Managed Futures: Record Capital Flight (Disclaimer: Data includes Bridgewater AUM) – (Peter Brandt)

Why Hedge Funds Don’t Care if They’re Underperforming the S&P – (Attain Capital)

Regulation:

House Bill Gives CFTC Less Funding than it wants – (The Hill)

Corzine’s ambition led to MF Global demise: Flowers – (CNBC)

News:

Tech partner leaves BlueCrest– (Financial News)

361 Capital to expand alternative MF offerings through new single-manager strategies – (Hedgeweek)

Futures and Miscellaneous:

Tranquility in Crude Repels Chaos-Loving Investors in Exchange-Traded Products– (Bloomberg)