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At Rydex|SGI. we are committed to offering investors greater potential to successfully navigate diverse market conditions. We believe that providing high-quality investment choices, insightful research and investor education is always in favor. Offering a wide array of alternative investment strategies in addition to index-based and fundamental strategies—including actively managed global, value, growth and fixed-income—we endeavor to put our investors first in all that we do. With more than $22 billion in assets under management, Rydex|SGI offers investors more than 100 investment choices—including mutual funds and ETFs.

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The TD AMERITRADE Institutional Difference TD AMERITRADE Institutional is a leading provider of comprehensive brokerage and custody services to over 4,000 independent Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) and their clients. We deliver smart operational solutions, innovative technology, customized practice management and flexible investment solutions, all with one goal in mind—impeccable service. As steadfast advocates for independent advisors, we continually speak out to ensure that RIA needs and the needs of investors are always considered within the regulatory environment. When you choose to work with us, you’ll see how deeply we are committed to your success. Visit us at www.tdainstitutional.com or call us at 800-934-6124. AQR Capital Management, LLC is a global provider of investment management services. The firm was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. With a diverse, global institutional client base, the firm offers a wide range of investment products ranging from traditional benchmark-driven investments to pure alpha, absolute return strategies. AQR Funds were created to provide mutual funds investors access to these alternative and innovative strategies.
Direxion Funds/Direxion Shares, managed by Rafferty Asset Management, LLC, is a major provider of leveraged index funds and ETFs and alternative-class fund products for investment advisors and sophisticated investors who seek to effectively manage risk and return in both bull and bear markets. Founded in 1997, the company has approximately $6.3 billion in assets under management. The company’s business model is built on continuous product innovation, exceptional customer service and a commitment to building strategic relationships with distribution partners. For more information, please visit www.direxionfunds.com <http://www.direxionfunds.com/> or www.direxionshares.com <http://www.direxionshares.com/> . Eaton Vance is one of the oldest investment management firms in the United States, with a history dating back to 1924. Eaton Vance and its affiliates offer individuals and institutions a broad array of investment products and wealth management solutions. The Company’s long record of providing exemplary service and attractive returns through a variety of market conditions has made Eaton Vance the investment manager of choice for many of today’s most discerning investors.
Fund Evaluation Group, LLC (FEG) was founded in 1988 with the goal of assisting organizations in selecting exceptional investment managers and developing prudent investment programs. Total client assets under advisement are over $27 billion (as of 9/30/09). Primary services include investment consulting and research, hedge fund management and out-sourced discretionary portfolio management. Clients include institutional investors and financial professionals. FEG is a 100% employee-owned firm and our revenues are derived solely from our clients, both of which ensure that FEG remains an objective investment advisor. Grubb & Ellis Company is one of the world’s largest and most respected commercial real estate services and investment management companies. The company is a leading sponsor of real estate investment programs that provide individuals and institutions the opportunity to invest in a broad range of real estate investment vehicles, including tax-deferred 1031 tenant-in-common (TIC) exchanges, public non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) and real estate investment funds. Grubb & Ellis sponsors Grubb & Ellis Apartment REIT, Inc. and Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II, Inc. For more information regarding Grubb & Ellis, please visit equityadvisors.grubb-ellis.com <http://www.grubb-ellis.com/> .

Mickelson Investment Management, LLC is a division of Mickelson Capital Consulting, LLC; a licensed RIA firm with more than 17 solid years of experience creating and preserving wealth for our clients. Our focus is to provide solutions that are both uncorrelated to traditional markets and have strong return potential. Our extensive in-house resources include teams of experienced professionals who represent Private Investment in Public Equity and sophisticated approaches to life settlement investing and monetizing insurance linked assets. Our client-centric ethic influences how we manage our portfolios, resulting in an emphasis on transparency, investor advocacy, and risk management.

 OIC is an industry cooperative funded by the BATS Options, Boston Options Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange, International Securities Exchange, NASDAQ OMX PHLX, NASDAQ Options Market, NYSE Amex Options, NYSE Arca Options, and The Options Clearing Corporation. OIC was formed in 1992 to educate investors and their financial advisors about the benefits and risks of exchange-traded equity options. OIC's resources include: The Options Industry Services Help Desk at 1-888-OPTIONS, educational Web sites at www.OptionsEducation.org, www.OptionsEducation.org/advisor and www.OICoptions.com, evening seminars throughout the continental United States and Canada, instructional DVDs and educational literature and software.
The Ridgewood Energy Funds partner with leading oil companies to drill and develop oil and natural gas projects in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico. In our 27 year history, Ridgewood has raised over $2.6 billion from affluent investors, 80% of which has come from repeat investors. The Ridgewood Energy Funds provide the opportunity for accredited investors to receive monthly cash flow from the sale of any oil and gas that is produced; portfolio diversification through energy commodities’ historically low correlation to the equities markets; and tax benefits from intangible drilling costs, depletion, and depreciation. RS Investments At the core of our business are multiple world-class investment management and research teams, each operating autonomously and offering our clients their unique perspectives. Our specialized investment teams deliver research-driven value, core, and growth strategies as well as sub-advised international and fixed-income strategies. Staffed with experienced professionals, each team employs distinct and well-defined investment processes. The dedicated research team approach assures that our clients benefit from process consistency, investment excellence, and choice across disciplines. Founded in 1986, RS Investments manages separate accounts and mutual funds for individuals and institutions. Offices are located in San Francisco and New York.
For over 20 years, Steben & Company, Inc. has specialized in bringing managed futures to sophisticated investors. An industry leader, Steben uses its experience to help investors and their financial advisors understand managed futures and the potential benefits to be gained from adding them to an investment plan. Steben & Company, Inc. is registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a commodity pool operator and introducing broker, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as a broker dealer and investment advisor, and is a member of the National Futures Asso¬ciation (NFA) and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).

Sterling Trust, a division of Equity Trust Company, is at the forefront of the self-directed retirement plan industry specializing in the custody of self-directed IRAs, qualified business retirement plans and non-qualified custodial accounts invested in alternative investments. Since 1974, we have worked closely with financial advisors and planners, broker-dealers, tax and legal professionals, investment product sponsors, mutual fund companies, banks and other financial institutions to help your clients achieve greater portfolio diversification. Today, Sterling Trust and its affiliates provide services to more than 140,000 individuals and businesses nationwide with approximately $10 billion in assets under custodial and retirement administration.

W. P. Carey and its non-traded real estate investment trust, Corporate Property Associates 17 – Global (CPA®:17 – Global), are pleased to be participating in the Financial Advisor/Private Wealth Conference on Innovative Alternative Strategies. Founded in 1973, W. P. Carey & Co. LLC (NYSE: WPC) is an investment management firm and leading global provider of long-term net lease financing for corporations worldwide. CPA®:17 – Global, W. P. Carey’s sixteenth offering, seeks to provide investors with stable, rising income and capital preservation by focusing primarily on tenant creditworthiness and invests in a broadly diversified portfolio of real estate assets by region, property type and industry. Aston Asset Management, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is a diversified institutional based investment management firm. Our Subadvisers (investment managers) are inherently focused on institutional process and investment performance. Through our selection of institutional quality investment managers with disciplined investment processes, our goal over time is to produce superior returns to our benchmarks with less risk. We offer a broad selection of mutual fund products and share classes for both individual and institutional investors. Separately managed accounts are also available. Consulting with you, we deliver solutions that you can deliver to your clients.
Barclays Capital's Investor Solutions team works with investment advisors, such as RIAs, trust companies, and multi-family offices, to create customized structured investments. The team is also responsible for the sales, strategy, and product development of iPath® Exchange Traded Notes. State Street Global Advisors is an acknowledged leader in the arena of institutional investing with $1.9 trillion in assets under management.1 An innovator in the exchange traded fund market and creator of the first ETF in 1993, we currently manage 89 domestic and 25 international exchange traded funds with approximately $204 billion worldwide in our SPDR® ETF family.2 Products offered through State Street Global Markets, LLC, member FINRA, SIPC. For further information, including prospectuses, visit spdrs.com or www.spdrgoldshares.com.
Incapital is a leading underwriter & wholesale distributor of fixed income securities & structured notes through a network of more than 900 broker-dealers, advisory firms, banks & institutions. With a diverse range of new issue and secondary market offerings, Incapital specializes in U.S. Agency securities, corporate notes, CDs, CMOs, municipal bonds, and structured notes. Incapital also provides resources for financial advisors and investors to create income-producing portfolios and notes linked to a wide range of asset classes. WisdomTree® is an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) sponsor and asset manager using its own fundamentally weighted index methodology. WisdomTree’s ETF line-up consists of 34 fundamentally weighted equity funds and 8 currency funds. WisdomTree also licenses its indexes to third parties for proprietary products and offers a platform to promote the use of WisdomTree ETFs in 401(k) plans. Approximately $7.4 billion in assets currently are managed by WisdomTree or are managed against WisdomTree Indexes by third parties under license from WisdomTree. For more information, please visit www.wisdomtree.com.
Folio Institutional is a division of FOLIOfn Investments, Inc., a self-clearing broker-dealer and a direct member of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation ( Lindner Capital Advisors is a federally registered investment advisor that was formed in 1996 to provide asset management services through an exclusive group of financial professionals and select broker/dealers. LCA applies an academically sound strategy to portfolio construction utilizing the Nobel-prize winning principles of Modern Portfolio Theory, asset allocation and institutional investing. Our <http://lcaus.com/pages/Portfolio_Series%5b2%5d> traditional retirement, tax managed and 401k <http://lcaus.com/pages/Portfolio_Series%5b2%5d> portfolios <http://lcaus.com/pages/Portfolio_Series%5b2%5d> are specifically designed to meet each client’s investment, risk tolerance and time horizon goals. LCA is registered with CEFEX, an independent global assessment and certification organization that determines whether the Adviser conforms to Fiduciary Best Practices in the conduct of its business.
ProShares is part of ProFunds Group, the leader in leveraged and inverse funds.1 ProShares introduced the first leveraged and inverse ETFs in the U.S. in 2006. Since 1997, ProFunds mutual funds have provided investors with access to sophisticated investment strategies. Chicago Board Options Exchange, the largest U.S. options exchange and creator of listed options, continues to set the bar for options trading through product innovation, trading technology and investor education. CBOE offers equity, index and ETF options, including the S&P 500 and CBOE Volatility Indexes (VIX). CBOE’s Hybrid Trading System incorporates electronic and open-outcry trading, enabling customers to choose their trading method. CBOEdirect, a proprietary, state-of-the-art electronic platform, powers CBOE’s Hybrid, the CBOE Futures Exchange, CBOE Stock Exchange and OneChicago. CBOE is home to the world-renowned Options Institute and www.cboe.com, named “Best of the Web” for options information and education.
Invesco PowerShares Capital Management LLC is Leading the Intelligent ETF Revolution® through its family of more than 110 domestic and international exchange-traded funds, which seek to outperform traditional benchmark indexes while providing advisors and investors access to an innovative array of focused investment opportunities. With franchise assets over $43 billion as of Dec. 31, 2009, PowerShares ETFs trade on both U.S. stock exchanges. For more information, please visit us at www.invescopowershares.com. PENSCO Trust Company is a leading custodian and administrator for self-directed retirement accounts. We specialize in providing services to investors and institutional clients such as RIAs whose investors are interested in diversifying their portfolios to include alternative investments such as real estate and private equity. For more than twenty years, we have made it our mission to enable Americans to maximize their retirement savings by informing them of the true range of allowable investment options. We strive to be the premier provider in our industry as measured by integrity, service, and knowledge of alternative investing within retirement accounts.
Hatteras Funds strives to be a leading provider of unique alternative investment solutions for financial professionals. Founded in 2003, Hatteras offers investors the ability to access institutional-quality alternative investments with confidence. Hatteras believes all investors should benefit from the same sophisticated investment approach and portfolio management talent as the largest institutions. We reduce barriers that many investors face when considering an allocation to alternative investments. Hatteras offers a suite of alternative investment products designed to offer access to: hedge fund strategies with daily liquidity, hedge funds with 1099 tax reporting, hedge funds and private investments in one core allocation, global private equity, and venture capital. Walton is a premier land acquisition, planning, development and management company in the United States and Canada with approximately 58,000 acres* managed, syndicated, exited, or under contract. Walton employs leading industry experts to ensure quality asset acquisition and management along every step of the land investment process and makes a long-term commitment to the communities in which it operates in order to create sustainable and livable environments. Walton is well positioned to execute its all-cash business model in the current economic environment with a focus on path of growth investments in strategic Sun Belt sub-markets. *Approximate as of 2/10/10.
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association® is an independent, not-for-profit global organization committed to education and professionalism in the field of alternative investments. Founded in 2002, the CAIA Association is the sponsoring body for the CAIA designation. Recognized globally, the designation certifies one's mastery of the concepts, tools and practices essential for understanding alternative investments and promotes adherence to high standards of professional conduct. Multi-Bank Securities, Inc. 24280 Woodward Ave. Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069 (800) 967-9045 www.mbssecurities.com Multi-Bank Securities, Inc. (MBS) is an institutional fixed-income securities broker-dealer committed to earning and preserving the respect of our customers by meeting their investment goals with personal service, institutional investment expertise and progressive technologies. As an independent, privately-held organization, you can be assured we provide broad market visibility and put your interests first. MBS offers a full array of fixed-income products in addition to being both a broker and underwriter of insured certificates of deposit.
Federated Investors has played a pioneering role in the financial industry since 1955. As one of the nation’s largest investment managers, Federated offers style-consistent investment products including domestic and international equity, fixed-income and money market mutual funds as well as a variety of separately managed account options. Our diversified product line is distributed through a network of financial intermediaries and institutions who assist investors in meeting their unique objectives. Federated understands the importance of diversification and allocation in reducing overall portfolio volatility. We continue to develop competitive and innovative products and create new applications for existing products to meet investors’ evolving financial needs. Fortigent, LLC delivers a fully integrated and customizable business-to-business outsourced wealth management solution to banks, trust companies, and independent advisory firms. Services include a comprehensive investment platform with particular expertise in alternative investments, a flexible unified managed account program, and consolidated wealth reporting. Fortigent’s web-based portal interface allows access to proposal and rebalancing tools, client portfolio reporting and accounting, as well as industry articles, research papers, and other practice management and business development resources. For more information, visit www.fortigent.com <http://www.fortigent.com> .
DundeeWealth U.S. offers a broad range of investment strategies to institutional investors and wealth management firms. We are a division of DundeeWealth Inc., one of Canada’s largest and fastest growing investment firms, managing more than $37 billion in client assets. Our platform includes more than 50 investment strategies that range from U.S., global and international equities to more specialized alternative investment strategies including gold and precious metals, natural resources, energy income trusts and Canadian equities. Investment offerings are available through separately-managed accounts, mutual funds, and commingled vehicles. Millennium Trust Company is an industry leader in administrative and custodial services. Millennium custodies alternative and traditional assets in IRAs, Solo 401(k)s and custody accounts, offers cost-effective 403(b) solutions, creates customized Automatic Rollover programs, provides integrated Health Savings Account solutions and designs unique trading platforms for Investment Advisors. Millennium Trust custodies more than 80,000 accounts. For more information, please visit www.mtrustcompany.com.
Waterfall Asset Management is a leading specialist manager of High-Yield Asset Backed Securities & Non-Performing Residential & Commercial Loans with $1.3B AUM. The firm’s Principals, Tom Capasse and Jack Ross, were pioneers in the ABS market having founded the ABS desk at Merrill Lynch in the mid-80's and led the first deals in many of the 60+ ABS sub-sectors that exist today. Waterfall manages multiple strategies looking to capitalize on the opportunities created by the 2008 Credit Crisis, including a High-Yield/Distressed ABS product, a Non-Performing Loan strategy, and ABS separate accounts that can be customized to meet clients’ risk/return objectives. Performance Trust has for over fifteen years applied its analytical framework to evaluate the potential risks and rewards embedded in complicated mortgage securities. The broker-dealer provides advice to and trades securities with 500 regional financial institution clients throughout the US. Performance Trust Investment Advisors is an investment manager managing non-agency RMBS portfolios for family offices, fund of hedge funds, RIA's and institutions.
Schooner Investment Group is an independent RIA specializing in risk managed equity portfolios. The firm provides sub-advisory services to advisors, financial intermediaries, and is the advisor to a Mutual Fund. SIG’s investment team has a 15 year history of providing hedged equity and convertible strategies for institutional investors. The Schooner Fund is an investor friendly vehicle for advisors seeking the structural efficiencies and benefits of a mutual fund platform with the trading and risk management strategies traditionally only available through hedge funds. The firm’s strategy seeks to capture the returns of equity investing, with downside protection and lower volatility. MICHIGAN AVENUE REAL ESTATE GROUP (“MAREG”) MAREG is a Chicago-based private real estate company with vast experience in real estate investing, real estate finance, sale leasebacks, asset management, receiver work and property dispositions. The company’s subsidiary, Michigan Avenue Real Estate Investors, acquires and adds value to real estate investments, which have suffered from issues such as excess leverage, improper management or market-related timing. The firm does not acquire real estate merely because the purchase price is discounted. Instead the organization stresses quality real estate based on location, market fundamentals, and proper conception of the asset, instead of enhancing returns using excess leverage or other financial engineering.
Founded in 2003, Gorelick Brothers Capital is a privately held capital management firm focused on alternative investing. Focus, disciplined process, macroeconomic opinion and healthy skepticism are essential ingredients of our investment approach. We believe the starting point for manager selection is forward-looking and comprehensive qualitative evaluation, with quantitative risk modeling and historical performance analysis playing supporting roles. Currently, our Morrocroft fund strategies include a family of fund of funds focused exclusively on real estate credit strategies and a diversified portfolio of hedge funds with a wealth preservation mandate. GWG Life has been in the secondary market for life insurance since 2004. Since its inception, GWG Life has settled over $1 billion in policies and maintains over $350 million in senior financing for the asset class. GWG Life currently manages a portfolio of insurance policies exceeding $900 million in face value. These life insurance policies are purchased from seniors who no longer need or want them. The principals and directors of GWG Life have significant experience in the alternative asset area, encompassing a variety of offerings. Learn more online at www.gwglife.com, or contact one of Key Account Managers 1.877.494.2388
U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is a boutique investment management firm specializing in gold, natural resources, emerging markets and infrastructure opportunities around the world. The company, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, introduced the industry’s first gold mutual fund, and has been an innovator all along by spotting opportunities in Eastern Europe, global resources, and other niche markets. Today, U.S. Global Investors manages 13 no-load mutual funds including the Global Resources Fund (PSPFX), the World Precious Minerals Fund (UNWPX), the Eastern European Fund (EUROX) and the Global MegaTrends Fund (MEGAX) which focuses on global infrastructure investments. Led by CEO/CIO Frank Holmes, the portfolio team travels extensively throughout the developing countries researching opportunities and evaluating risk, all in the pursuit of exceptional performance for our funds. PNC Capital Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser and subsidiary of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., offers equity, fixed income and international strategies and mutual funds. In addition, the firm serves as manager and administrator to the PNC Alternative Investment Funds, a family of funds of hedge funds, registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and the Securities Act of 1933. For more information,visit www.pnccapitaladvisors.com or call 888-276-2325, option 2.
Man Investments is an asset management firm that provides its clients with access to multi-manager solutions and single manager hedge funds. Man has assets under management of $39.1 billion as of March 31, 2010, is located in 15 countries with key centers in London, Switzerland, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Man’s holding company, Man Group plc, has a trading history of more than 225 years, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. A strong balance sheet and access to permanent capital enables Man to fund innovation, seed or acquire managers, and recruit and retain talent. Old Mutual Asset Management provides access to 18 distinct institutional boutique firms including asset managers that specialize in over 150 high-quality, active investment strategies for institutional and individual investors. Old Mutual Asset Management is committed to leveraging the discipline of leading institutional asset managers to bring your clients a level of innovation and expertise previously reserved for major corporations, foundations and endowments.
Coventry created the secondary market for life insurance in the US. For more than two decades, we have been a leader in the longevity space, executing more than $30 billion in longevity-linked transactions. With offices in Philadelphia, London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney, we offer unrivaled access to the uncorrelated performance and low volatility of this truly alternative asset class. Peachtree is a privately-held company majority-owned by Credit Suisse and affiliates. Peachtree is a leading specialty finance company focused on providing liquidity to holders of high credit quality but illiquid deferred payment obligations. The company purchases assets including structured legal settlements, life insurance policies, annuities, and other selected insurance and annuity products, the holders of which are individuals underserved by traditional lenders. Peachtree is a leader in the markets that it serves and acts as servicer for the bulk of the assets it originates. Peachtree has historically served institutional investors, and is now offering products to institutional and individual investors.
Rady Asset Management, LLC is a San Diego, CA based investment management firm. The firm manages over $250mm in Long-Short and Long-Only strategies in the form of mutual funds, limited partnerships as well as separately managed accounts. The firm employs fundamental, bottom-up research driven analysis with a focus on long-term capital preservation and risk management. The firm invests in mid-large cap, highly liquid US equities and has a track record going back to 1995. The investment team has over 35 years of experience. The Connors Group is a leading innovator in the development and distribution of financial market information and data for both the institutional investment community and the individual investor/ trader. The firm builds and develops model-driven, quantitatively validated trading/ investing methodologies based on a proprietary database of U.S. equity trades. The MachineTM from The Connors Group is the financial industry's first solution for building and actively managing quantified, high-performance portfolios of equities and ETFs. The Machine was named finalist for the 2010 Innovative Market Data Project award by Inside Market Data and is the only software that builds quantified investment portfolios.
CapX Partners is an equipment financing and secured mezzanine investment fund, based in Chicago, IL. CapX provides leases and loans from $1 - $10 million for growing companies often supported by private equity and venture capital funds. CapX favors manufacturing, distribution, service, technology and healthcare service industries with an emphasis on revenue producing fixed assets. CapX has raised three funds with over $200 Million in total capital. CapX is a licensed Small Business Investment Company ("SBIC"). Established by the Small Business Administration ("SBA") in 1958, the SBIC program has provided $57.2 billion of long-term capital to well over 107,000 companies. SCS Financial is a top tier investment manager providing premier alternative investment solutions for financial professionals and institutions. SCS offers deep management experience, top research capabilities and an industry leading technology platform that allows for extensive risk management. With close to a $1B in Hedge Fund assets, our reputation and relationships give us extensive access to managers and investment ideas on a global level. SCS is launching a registered multi-strategy fund of hedge funds product that will look to mirror our flagships funds that have close to a 5 year track record and will have a minimum investment of $25k.
The Stutland Volatility Group (SVG) is the advisory division of Stutland Equities, LLC. SVG provides volatility management analysis, solutions and execution to individual and institutions. SVG performs portfolio correlation and hedging analysis on single stocks, indices, ETF’s and equity-linked portfolios with special emphasis on the correlation of the portfolios with the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). SVG also utilizes equity derivatives to enhance returns on client portfolios (such as overlay), hedge tail risk and establish floor stops. SVG is based in Chicago. Thesis Fund Management was founded by hedge fund managers to bring alternative strategies to mutual funds and the investing public. Thesis is singularly focused on alternative investing as its only business and is the investment advisor to the Thesis Flexible Fund (TFLEX). Thesis performs fundamental, bottom-up security analysis to identify opportunities around the globe and seeks to capitalize on those opportunities utilizing a wide variety of investment tools. The fund may make strategic investments in companies for the purpose of effecting governance, operational, or other fundamental changes. The Firm is independent and employee owned.
For more than a century, CME Group has helped investors and business leaders around the world manage—and mitigate—their risk. And now we can help you. As the world’s leading futures and options marketplace, offering the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, we’re built on a tradition of trust and transparency. Today firms you’ve known for years are building managed futures portfolios to suit your needs. Ask your broker or advisor for more information on managed futures or visit www.cmegroup.com/mf.