MF Global’s Alternative Investment Strategies (AIS) group provides qualified retail and institutional investors with access to the fast-growing managed futures sector. Leveraging MF Global’s long history of leadership in futures, the AIS group offers clients a diversified product strategy through a direct asset placement program of managed accounts.

MF Global’s institutional sales professionals educate clients and provide them with introductions to a pre-screened, select set of professional futures managers (commodity trading advisors or CTAs) and global macro traders. A key focus of the AIS group is to provide clients with a diversified investment strategy.

MF Global employs a rigorous, multi-layer due diligence process, which includes comprehensive risk and compliance reviews as well as third-party validation, to discover, screen, and select these managers.

Managed futures traders and global macro traders invest in a broad range of instruments that may include traditional commodities, currencies, and government securities.