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PFGBEST is committed to the discovery of new and emerging CTA talent. PFGBEST’s Managed Funds Division identifies and establishes long- term relationships with select CTAs to expand its managed funds marketing programs. By entering the CTA challenge PFGBEST is able to monitor, track and promote winning CTAs. The winner of each quarter, based on the best risk-adjusted performance, becomes eligible to trade a PFGBEST account in the amount of $250,000. The CTA winning the CHAMPIONSHIP SHOWDOWN will be allowed to trade a PFGBEST account of $1,000,000.
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Contest Results
Hrushikesh Nalubola
HRUSHIKESH "RISHI" NALUBOLA has won the 2nd annual $1,00,000 showdown challenge. Rishi posted a six-month return of 100.21% and a risk-adjusted rate of return of 3.41.
Rishi is President of Shri Capital LLC, a CTA firm he founded in 2004. He is the sole principal of Shri Capital LLC. He has been trading stocks and options since 1992 and has been trading futures and futures options since 1998. He received an M.B.A. from George Washington University in 2000. Prior to founding Shri Capital LLC, he held several progressively responsible engineering and marketing positions for over 12 years in the semiconductor industry. He was a lead technical engineer and a marketing manager for Philips Semiconductors, a designer and producer of integrated circuits. Rishi focused on developing and refining his trading strategies upon leaving Philips at the end of 2002. He uses both technical and fundamental analysis to assist in determining possible trades.
Shri Capital’s MARKET NEUTRAL PROGRAM will engage primarily in selling or writing options (puts and calls) on S&P 500 index futures. The program may also include buying options or buying or selling futures contracts.
Sam Butler
Sam Butler is the winner of the 4th quarter of 2008 CTA Challenge, with a ROR of 19.87% and a risk ratio of 5.43.
Sam Butler is the President of Altaloma Asset Management, LLC ("AAM"). AAM has been registered with the CFTC and a member of the NFA since November 2004. In September of 2008 AAM changed its name from Steadfast Resource Associates in order to avoid any confusion in regards to AAM’s business.
Mr. Butler graduated with a B.S. degree from the University of Central Florida in 2003. Directly after graduation he began as a hedge fund and managed futures analyst with a small private family office in Central Florida. Butler quickly figured out that he wanted to be more active in the trading side of the business so he made his move into strategy development and trading within the company. He specialized in the development and trading of intra-day equity index futures strategies as well as overnight strategies in the equity index and crude oil options. Mr. Butler still maintains a position within the company and many of his strategies are still in use today.
Beyond AAM Mr. Butler trades a variety of mostly intra-day strategies in a proprietary manner on the equity index futures as well as U.S. Bond futures.
This win of the Q4 2008 PFG CTA Challenge represents Mr. Butler´s fifth win of the quarterly challenges since 2005.
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For more information please contact:
Debra Stepanek (dstepanek@pfgbest.com) - (312) 775-3580
Paul Moran (pmoran@pfgbest.com) - (312) 775-3526
*The period rate of return divided by the daily standard deviation.