QCM Adjusts Trend-Following Formula Amidst Difficult Environment

After generating -12.17% performance in 2013 and starting out 2014 with -4.78% in January, Aref Karim, chief executive officer and chief investment officer at Quality Capital Management (QCM), laments the lack of opportunity as his Global Diversified program is experiencing among its worst drawdowns in its nearly 18 year history. Contending with “new” market environment since 2008 “Systematic Macros and CTAs alike have had to contend with a ‘new’ environment ever since the global crisis of 2008,” Karim wrote in an investor letter reviewed by ValueWalk. “With reduced asset volatility and a regime shift in correlations over such a protracted…