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Managing a systematic or fundamentally driven strategy in liquid markets?

IASG is currently reviewing manager submissions.

Send your tearsheet and a brief strategy overview for consideration.
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For years, Japan has been a major source of capital for markets around the world.

But as Japanese rates rise and the yen shifts, the incentives behind those flows are changing. Even a gradual movement of savings back toward Japan could have implications for the carry trade, U.S. Treasuries and global markets.

Will Japan Stop Exporting Savings? Japan’s changing rate environment could reshape the carry trade and global capital flows. Explore what a shift in Japanese savings could mean for global markets.

Shrinking contract sizes are quietly changing the futures industry.

More flexibility. Lower capital requirements. Greater precision in position sizing.

IASG’s Greg Taunt explores why micro and mini futures contracts may be one of the more important structural shifts in modern futures markets.

🔗 https://www.iasg.com/blog/2026/05/06/shrinking-futures-contracts-why-smaller-is-better

Shrinking Futures Contracts: Why Smaller Is Better Outside of Warren Buffett, most companies actively endeavor to keep the price of shares reasonable for a wide audience, which can increase adoption rates and make their stock more desirable. Futures markets run into similar constraints. As contract values grow, they become harder to trade. Just like...

For more than 30 years, IASG has worked within the managed futures and alternative investment space.

That experience has shaped the proprietary tools and frameworks we use to organize, evaluate, and provide context around manager information today.

Built on decades of research, data, and industry experience.

There’s more behind IASG than the data you see.

IASG Insight brings portfolio information, manager data and analytics together in one proprietary platform, providing a clearer way to organize and review complex information.

And it’s one piece of the technology behind IASG.

More to come.



https://www.iasg.com/investment-tools/insight

Fraud precautions are an ever-moving target.

From wire verification to protecting personal information, financial safeguards continue to evolve as fraud becomes more sophisticated. AI adds another layer to that challenge.

Sometimes the extra step is there for a reason.

https://www.iasg.com/blog/2026/09/01/fraud-precautions-protecting-financial-accounts

Fraud Precautions: The Ever-Moving Target Fraud precautions continue to evolve as threats become more sophisticated. Here's how financial firms are responding to these changing risks.

Diversification Myth #3: Adding more funds or asset classes doesn't automatically reduce risk.

If those assets move together, especially in a crisis, you haven't diversified, you've just added complexity.

True diversification requires understanding how assets behave relative to each other, not just how many you own.



https://www.iasg.com/blog/2025/12/02/the-6-biggest-myths-about-diversification-and-non-correlation

Summer trading volume often declines, and market conditions can change with it.
Wider spreads, slippage and shifting liquidity may affect trading strategies differently, making seasonality another factor worth understanding.

Summer Doldrums for Traders Summer trading volume often declines, affecting liquidity, spreads, slippage and volatility. See what seasonal market shifts mean for traders CTAs.

IASG Manager Badges recognize programs that meet specific performance and operational criteria.

A simple way to identify managers who have cleared a defined bar is built into the platform.

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We're expanding the manager universe on the IASG platform.

If you manage a systematic or fundamentally driven strategy trading liquid markets, we'd like to review your tearsheet.
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