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

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Jun 18, 2014, 08:00 ET

CHICAGO, June 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Last night CME Group and BarclayHedge recognized managed futures industry leaders at the third annual Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards. The ceremony featured live entertainment by Comedian Frank Caliendo.

David Harding, CEO and Chairman of Winton Capital Management, won the Pinnacle Achievement Award. Harding started two of the world's leading alternative investment companies, Winton and AHL. He has made an enormous impact on the development and maturation of the managed futures industry, as well as the financial services industry as a whole.

The full list of award recipients follows:

BEST DIVERSIFIED CTA
2013 Best Diversified CTA ($500 million+ AUM)	Boronia Capital
2013 Best Diversified CTA (Less than $500 million AUM)	Systematic Alpha Management, LLC
5-Year Best Diversified CTA ($500 million+ AUM)	GMO
5-Year Best Diversified CTA (Less than $500 million AUM)	Newton Capital Partners

BEST SINGLE SECTOR
2013 Best Single Sector CTA	Tlaloc Capital
5-Year Best Single Sector CTA	Kottke Commodity Capital

BEST MULTI-ADVISOR FUND
2013 Best Multi-Advisor Futures Fund 5-Year Best Multi-Advisor Futures Fund	Dunn Capital Management, LLC AC Investment Management, LLC

BEST OPTIONS STRATEGY
2013 Best Options Strategy	Global Sigma Group
5-Year Best Options Strategy	Doherty Advisors

3-YEAR BEST SYSTEMATIC CTA	QuantMetrics Capital Management LLP
3-YEAR BEST DISCRETIONARY CTA 3-YEAR BEST HYBRID CTA 2013 BEST EMERGING CTA	Newton Capital Partners Esulep Management Whitehaven

Managers were nominated 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. Learn more at www.mfpawards.com.

About CME Group
As the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) is where the world comes to manage risk. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes, including futures and options based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural commodities, metals, weather and real estate. CME Group brings buyers and sellers together through its CME Globex^® electronic trading platform and its trading facilities in New York and Chicago. CME Group also operates CME Clearing, one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, which offers clearing and settlement services across asset classes for exchange-traded contracts and over-the-counter derivatives transactions. These products and services ensure that businesses everywhere can substantially mitigate counterparty credit risk.

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About BarclayHedge
BarclayHedge is a leading independent, research based provider of information services to the alternative investment industry. Founded in 1985, Barclay has been publishing performance data and rankings based on that data since 1990 and currently maintains data on more than 12,000 alternative investment vehicles. BarclayHedge provides access to its Managed Futures, Hedge Fund, and Fund of Funds databases to thousands of investors. Barclay's 10 managed futures indices, 18 hedge fund indices, and 7 UCITS indices are universally recognized as alternative investment performance benchmarks and are utilized by investment professionals around the globe.

The BarclayHedge team includes 20 research specialists, programmers, and data administration personnel experienced in alternative investments, and have been under the continuous leadership of its founder, Sol Waksman, since its inception.

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