CME Group and BarclayHedge Honor Managed Futures Leaders at Eighth Annual Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards

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Jun 20, 2019, 12:57 ET

CHICAGO, June 20, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, and BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions Group, recognized top managed futures industry leaders at the eighth annual Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards last night.

Terry Duffy, CME Group Chairman and CEO at the Eighth Annual Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards

(L-R) Martin Lueck, Co-Founder and Research Director of Aspect Capital; Bryan Durkin, CME Group President

The winner of this year's Pinnacle Achievement Award is Martin Lueck, most well-known for his work on quantitative, model-based, trading strategies over the past three decades. Lueck is Co-Founder and Research Director of Aspect Capital, the $7.3 billion systematic investment manager, where he oversees the team responsible for generating and analyzing the fundamental research hypotheses that power Aspect's range of investment programs.

Prior to Aspect, Lueck co-founded the firm Adam, Harding and Lueck Ltd. (AHL, now owned by the Man Group plc.) in 1987 and was instrumental in developing AHL's trading systems and approach to research. He currently serves as Chair of the Oxford Physics Development Board and as a Director on the Board of National Futures Association.

He holds a master's degree with honors in physics from Christ Church, Oxford.

More information about the awards and the winners, as well as a video about their achievements, can be found at www.mfpawards.com. The complete list of award recipients follows:

BEST SYSTEMATIC CTA
2018 Best Systematic CTA ($1 Billion+ AUM)	Bridgewater Associates
2018 Best Systematic CTA (Less than $1 Billion AUM)	Salus Alpha Capital
5-Year Best Systematic CTA ($1 Billion+ AUM)	Man AHL
5-Year Best Systematic CTA (Less than $1 Billion AUM)	Tiber Capital

BEST DIVERSIFIED CTA
2018 Best Diversified CTA ($1 Billion+ AUM)	Bridgewater Associates
2018 Best Diversified CTA (Less than $1 Billion AUM)	Salus Alpha Capital
5-Year Best Diversified CTA ($1 Billion+ AUM)	Man AHL
5-Year Best Diversified CTA (Less than $1 Billion AUM)	Splendor Capital Management

BEST LARGE CAP CTA
2018 Best Large Cap CTA ($5 Billion+ AUM)	Bridgewater Associates
5-Year Best Large Cap CTA ($5 Billion+ AUM)	IPM Informed Portfolio Management

BEST SMALL CAP CTA
2018 Best Small Cap CTA (Less than $100 Million AUM)	Deep Field Capital
5-Year Best Small Cap CTA (Less than $100 Million AUM)	Jaguar Investments

BEST DISCRETIONARY CTA
2018 Best Discretionary CTA	RCMA Capital
5-Year Best Discretionary CTA	Pan Capital Management

BEST HYBRID CTA
2018 Best Hybrid CTA	Episteme Capital
5-Year Best Hybrid CTA	Splendor Capital Management

BEST SINGLE SECTOR CTA
2018 Best Single Sector CTA	Pearl Capital Advisors
5-Year Best Single Sector CTA	Pan Capital Management

BEST OPTIONS STRATEGY
2018 Best Options Strategy	Global Sigma Group
5-Year Best Options Strategy	Warrington Asset Management

BEST MULTI-ADVISOR FUTURES FUND
2018 Best Multi-Advisor Futures Fund	Equinox Funds
5-Year Best Multi-Advisor Futures Fund	LoCorr Funds

BEST EMERGING CTA	Royal Vision Capital

THE PINNACLE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Martin Lueck
Research Director and Co-Founder, Aspect Capital Inc.

Nominees were chosen based on quantitative data provided by BarclayHedge for the various award categories. All data was collected and analyzed by BarclayHedge. CME Group can neither verify nor negate the accuracy of the data used to calculate nominees and winners.

About CME Group

As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals. The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform. In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. With a range of pre- and post-trade products and services underpinning the entire lifecycle of a trade, CME Group also offers optimization and reconciliation services through TriOptima, and trade processing services through Traiana.

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About Backstop-BarclayHedge

Backstop Solutions Group's mission is to help the institutional investment industry use time to its fullest potential. We develop technology to simplify and streamline otherwise time-consuming tasks and processes, enabling our clients to quickly and easily access, share, and manage the knowledge that's critical to their day-to-day business success. Backstop provides its industry-leading cloud-based productivity suite to investment consultants, pensions, funds of funds, family offices, endowments, foundations, private equity, hedge funds, and real estate investment firms.

BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop, currently maintains data on more than 6,900 hedge funds, funds of funds, and CTAs. The BarclayHedge Indices are utilized by institutional investors, brokerage firms, and private banks worldwide as performance benchmarks for the hedge fund and managed futures industries.

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