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WA: Managed futures is primarily what we are known for and what we are going to continue to focus on. Our fl agship managed futures portfolio contains the lion’s share of our assets, and our focus is going to be continuing to provide the diverse strategy set in that portfolio through vehicles that suit our clients. This is not a new concept for us. We have had public funds, private offerings, managed accounts, onshore, offshore vehicles and ‘40 Act vehicles for a number of years. We opened a momentum fund in January of this year and plan to launch a fund that provides access to another portion of our portfolio at the end of this year.
HL: Mike Harris is speaking at the Managed Fund’s Associations inaugural London summit next week, so how long has Campbell been involved with the Managed Fund’s Association?
WA: Campbell has actually been involved pretty much since the inception. Five executive members
from Campbell have served on the board at various times. It hasn’t been continuous because we like to let others have an opportunity. Campbell has been involved for a long period of time, and will continue to be interested and be involved.
HL: Do you have any view on the recent announcement that the MFA and AIMA will be collaborating in terms of a steering committee to deal with various policy initiatives?
WA: I think that what they are doing makes sense – we have more and more clients who are European based, and a lot of the constituents that AIMA is servicing have more and more clients in the US. Both regions have regulatory bodies that are collaborating and making sure that they are aligned.
As a result there are a lot of things that overlap, and it makes sense for both trade associations to partner with each other and share information.
It is quite refreshing for us to be able to take advantage of AIMA’s research and reciprocally they are able to take advantage of the Managed Funds Association, and make it a bit more effi cient, hopefully make it a little bit cheaper. It makes a lot of sense to me. When I was looking at the points that AIMA CEO Jack Inglis and MFA CEO & President Richard Baker were making, the focus was always about effi ciency but making sure that education takes the front seat, along with the development of sound industry practises. It makes much more sense to be self-regulatory and making sure that have you got your best interests of your clients in front of you at all times. That is the kind of thing that we make sure that we interact with. Our regulators make sure that they understand our perspective, we understand we have to respond to what they want us to do.
HL: That is all very encouraging to hear. Well thanks very much for your time. THFJ
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