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• Parker Global, Lockbox to Launch Joint Managed Futures Product

  Date: 2012.04.22 | Category: Singapore Map | Response: 0

  
  New York, NY (PRWEB) March 30, 2012

  Parker Global Strategies, LLC (PGS) and Lockbox Asset Management (Lockbox) have joined forces to create a new managed futures index and related products and funds for institutional and high net worth investors.

  The venture draws on the unique skills of each team. PGS, the creator of the Parker FX Index, brings its deep knowledge of CTA and FX managers, its experience in constructing both actively managed portfolios and investable indices comprised of such managers, and its proprietary style mapping system, CTA Style Trax. The principals of Lockbox, a New York and Greenwich, CT based investment management firm founded by Aaron Ford and Jonathan Ende, have built award-winning derivatives and alternative investment businesses at major investment banks and bring their 40+ years of structuring, institutional money management, proprietary trading, and alternative investment expertise.

  The jointly developed product offerings seek to deliver outsized returns with lower risk by using a customized structured solution coupled with a PGS-Lockbox proprietary systematic, volatility controlled, diversified portfolio of Best of Breed CTA, FX and Macro investment managers. The resulting products are targeted to have low to zero correlation to other asset classes and positive performance during market crises. In contrast to most alternative investments, the products will also have very short-term liquidity and a highly preferable custody arrangement.

  According to Jonathan Ende, Co-founder of Lockbox, We are very enthusiastic about our joint venture with Parker Global Strategies. Lockbox Asset Management spent significant time investigating potential partners for this exciting new product, and PGSs expertise in the FX and CTA space along with their extensive due diligence and research process carried out on each manager is the perfect, synergistic fit.

  Virginia Parker, Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer of Parker Global Strategies said of the products underlying new index, This Index should prove to be one of the most comprehensive rules-based, factor-driven allocation processes available to investors today. The methodology considers trading styles, auto-correlation, mean reversion, risk, quality of a managers operations, and more. We are excited to work with Lockbox on this product and eager to share this development with our clients.

  Aaron Ford, Co-founder of Lockbox, added, Notably missing from most investors portfolios is managed futures exposure, which has historically performed as an effective hedge during market turmoil. In our joint effort with PGS, we have developed an innovative, systematic, and easy-to-understand approach to generating outsized absolute returns from the managed futures space in a capital efficient, highly liquid, and risk-reduced manner.

  Based on data from Hedge Fund Research, Inc. (HFR) on alternative investments for 2011, we estimate the managed futures industry had over $ 300 Billion of assets under management at last year end. Since the financial crisis of 2008, managed futures and macro investments have significantly outperformed other strategies and have become one of the fastest growing subclass within the alternative investment spectrum.

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  More information detailing both the joint venture and the PGS-Lockbox Managed Futures Index can be made available on request.

  ABOUT PARKER GLOBAL STRATEGIES

  Parker Global Strategies (PGS) provides both institutional and private clients a broad spectrum of custom tailored alternative investments including foreign exchange, managed futures and energy infrastructure. The Firm has advised on the placement of over US$ 3.0 billion since its inception in 1995 and has provided foreign exchange advisory and management services since 1996. Founder Virginia Parker developed and launched the Parker FX Index in 1992. Today, it is considered one of the major benchmarks for the performance of FX managers. PGS has offices in Stamford, Chicago and Denver in the US and globally in Tokyo and Singapore. Please visit http://www.parkerglobal.com.

  ABOUT LOCKBOX ASSET MANAGEMENT

  Lockbox Asset Management, located in New York, NY and Greenwich, CT, is an investment firm which manages capital for its principals and private clients primarily in the alternatives space. Lockbox Asset Management specializes in structuring innovative solutions around its investments with the goal of enhancing after-tax returns while reducing risk. Its founding principals, Jonathan Ende and Aaron Ford, have over 40 years of combined professional investing and structuring experience. Please visit http://www.lockboxasset.com.

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  This document does not constitute an offer of securities for sale, a prospectus, an invitation to subscribe for any securities, or a recommendation in relation to any securities, in the United States or in any other jurisdiction in which such offer or invitation is prohibited. This document does not constitute or form part of any offer of the shares of any fund for which Parker Global Strategies LLC acts as investment manager or an invitation to apply for any such shares.

  
  
  
  
  

• The global market for maritime containerization to reach 731 million TEUs in 2017, according to a new report, Global Analysts, Inc

  Date: 2012.04.19 | Category: Singapore Currency | Response: 0

  San – Jose, CA (PRWEB) April 9, 2012

  Follow us on LinkedIn containers are the foundation for a highly automated system for goods in transit. Despite the modest exterior, shipping containers also known as sea containerization is the greatest invention of our responsibility for reducing transport costs to an all time low, and to start a boom in world trade. These steel containers are in place the building blocks of today’s global economy, given the extent to which these utilitarian products are optimized for transport and support for globalization. These containers, for example, have reduced the cost of shipping and packaging costs by standardizing the load. Interestingly, the emergence of China to the forefront of global economic power, as the world’s largest exporters of competitive giant was only possible low-cost transportation of sea containers is included. The growth of maritime container transport industry is closely linked to demand and consumption of goods around the world, and the level of movement of goods from one country to another. For example, the demand for containers in direct proportion to the GDP in this economy. Globalization, which was shot in the 1980s and as a result of meteorite trade and economic growth in Asian markets such as Taiwan, South Korea, Southeast Asia and China, have traditionally employed the growth of containerization. Meaning of maritime transport in the future may be the fact that almost 90% of goods traded across the border are moving across the oceans and seas of the world.

  In the coming years will depend on the growth of developing countries in the Asia-Pacific, encouraged the continuation of industrial development, expansion of commercial activities of commercial organizations, and the increase in trading activity. In China, economic stimulus packages, which put emphasis on sea transport infrastructure, is expected to significantly increase the demand for container shipping in the coming years. In this regard, the market will benefit from the government to allocate the restructuring of shipping routes, optimization of functions and ports expansion of the marine fuel supply services. In addition, India and the Middle East offer huge opportunities fueled by population growth, urbanization, economic growth, increase in freight hubs, deregulation and the growth of interregional trade. Architectural improvements in the container for excellent maneuverability at Bandy rivers in the world of major shipping lanes and ports, and also bodes well for maritime transport, which in turn will benefit the container shipping.

  technological innovations such as self-unloading vessels, automated container handling, tracking the speed and efficiency in operation, more efficient use of information technology to improve navigation, environmental protection and operational safety profile, are also ready to take advantage of the market in the coming year . Technologies such as Smart Security and Tradelanes (SST) and radio frequency identification (RFID) will find wider application in the terminals because of improvements in the yard filling storage, processing and transport within the terminal berth.

  key to note the tendency to increase the size of container ships. Over the past decade, the global container trade more than tripled. In response to this trend, the demand for 53-foot container have witnessed a significant increase since the transition to larger vessels provide economic benefits for the customer and the shipping company. In connection with the events in the infrastructure and capabilities of the terminal and shore facilities associated with the need to optimize the lot size and terms of performance, ultra-large container ships (ULCS) will grow in popularity. Most of ULCS fleet is projected to occur in Asia and Europe, crossing routes, and the pendulum of trade. Going forward, the vessel size will continue to grow, albeit at a slower pace, shipping lines are trying to balance the needs of the growing global trade in the security protocol, and more containers increases the risk of loss of container. Environmental consequences of lost containers and forecasts to the fore in sync with the development of containerization industry. For example, expanding the human footprint on the bottom of the deepest in the form of lost containers on the ocean floor, as well as the threat to marine species as a result of degradation of containers and release of toxic substances from the container contents to attract much attention.

  EU industry of shipping at present remains nervous, as market sentiment continue to swing between hopes and fears. With mixed signals coming from the unfolding drama surrounding the debt crisis, it is still too early to predict the impact on the marine market reactive container. The macro themes affecting Europe include the continuation of a sovereign debt crisis as a result of half-measures implemented to date in an attempt to prevent the crisis, the dysfunctional financial system, which feeds slow economic collapse and concerns about the decline in consumer spending and slower economic growth as a result of austerity measures. While nothing remains valid and the potential impact of the crisis are many, the market continues to be threatened by future reproduction of the debt crisis Eurozones. In the extreme case of the pessimistic end of the spectrum is the belief that if the debt and financial dominoes began to fall on the main euro-zone economies, shipping companies will be competing with subsequent excess capacity.

  For example, the amount of residue on the main trade routes such as Europe and the transatlantic could most likely adversely affect the container shipping. Any further escalation in the burden of the debt crisis will cause a worsening of already softening of the structure of trade in Europe. The decrease of imports in Europe and as a result of shortage of cargo container could stifle the boom seen until now. And with a giant cargo ships sailing with half the load, the income of shipping companies may indicate painful falls. Reducing consumption of goods in the West as a result of problems associated with high public debt and unsustainable government spending will be in the long term decline in production starting in the East, creating huge gaps in the global container fleet capacity, in the decade dragged on huge levels. Continued fall in freight rates have the potential to critically damage the container market in the medium and long term. For example, shipping companies currently receive only a little over U.S. $ 550 per container shipped from Asia to Europe, in contrast to U.S. $ 1,600 per container in the previous era of crisis. Falling interest rates point to the beginning of what looks like a worldwide surplus of container, and the threat it brings to the creation of new capacities and new shipping containers for sale. In addition, European banks have got into the whirlpool of the debt crisis, any deterioration in the script and the introduction of austerity measures in an attempt to restructure the debt, may very likely influence of ship finance and liquidity damage in shipping.

  currently Nevertheless, optimism prevails, even given the healthy performance of the liquid natural gas trading, which shows no signs of slowing down as a result of the debt crisis. LNG trade continues indifferent to a large extent supported by the growth in energy demand in Asia and the increased focus on environmentally friendly sources of energy less than carbonintensive. The dry bulk sector is also expected to hold the pressure, given the increase in the amount of coal imported worldwide. Rising energy trade across the Pacific are also expected to enhance the mood of the market in the future. For example, a new discovery of gas fields in the United States and Canada will trade in energy resources across the Pacific. Growth in exports of natural gas will contribute the balance of trade crosses the streams, which is currently skewed towards manufactured goods exported from Asia to North America. In addition, the German economy