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His point is echoed by James Koutoulas, CEO of Typhon Capital Management, a Chicago-based CTA. “CTAs definitely attracted a ton of capital post-2008, but more allocators are digging deeper into the wide universe of strategies that have nothing to do with trend-following. Many of those strategies have absolutely nothing to do with what the equity market is doing.”
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Despite bumpy June/July, CTAs hold on
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There’s only one thing Wall Street hates about Hillary Clinton, and it has nothing to do with all the scandals
And for a lot of Wall Street, that’s where the shadiness (or as White would call it, distastefulness) begins and ends — with that rhetorical disconnect. Some, like James Koutoulas, CEO of the Chicago-based hedge fund Typhon Capital, consider it a form of hypocrisy.
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MF Global Customers Made Whole and Taking on the National Futures Association
James Koutoulas, an attorney and CEO of Typhon Capital and President and Co-Founder of the Commodity Customer Coalition, a non-profit customer advocacy organization formed in response to the MF Global bankruptcy, tells the Street’s Jill Malandrino the CCC works with regulators, Congress, and industry leaders to better protect commodities customers.
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Stalking Jon Corzine
Yet James Koutoulas, CEO of $100 million Chicago hedge fund Typhon Capital Management, is determined to see Corzine get his comeuppance. “I am going to keep fighting until Corzine is in jail,” he says. “The evidence we need to charge him is there. We need to make clear as a society that the next time a sociopath CEO says, ‘Do I go out of business or do I cheat?’ and chooses to cheat, he is going to be thinking about it in an orange jumpsuit in state prison.”
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Critic re-elected to US futures industry regulator’s board
A critic of the US National Futures Association won re-election to its board, the industry regulator said on Friday, setting the stage for more tension over its practices.
James Koutoulas, chief executive of Typhon Capital Management, was re-elected as a director after accusing the NFA of breaking its own rules for nominating public representatives last year and of falsifying documents to cover up alleged wrongdoing.
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Futures regulator dogged by questions on conflicts, governance
Those board members, James Koutoulas and John Roe, filed a joint complaint with the CFTC last year, alleging NFA management fudged board minutes to advance the election of board members who weren’t properly nominated. The battle isn’t about the minutiae of recordkeeping but rather consolidating power, Koutoulas says. “NFA just wants to control every seat on that board,” he says. He’s called for the ouster of Roth and NFA General Counsel Tom Sexton.
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Exclusive: Customer advocacy activist James Koutoulas accuses NFA Chairman of improprieties, war of words commences
The United States has carved out a well-earned reputation for being a safe and secure nation in which to conduct business of any kind, with a refined business culture, high ethical standards and comprehensive customer protection policies which are especially effective with regard to safeguarding the buying public’s hard-earned dollars.
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Checks and Balances: James Koutoulas Seeks NFA Board Transparency and Balance in Re-election Bid
Koutoulas, CEO of Typhon Capital Management, founded the CCC along with John Roe in the wake of the MF Global bankruptcy in October 2011. Roe and Koutoulas were elected to the NFA in 2013, representing the CTA/CPO category, and now face re-election in a contested election. Koutoulas is running in a three-way race against George Berbeco and Bernard Denis, III.
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Futures group board members file election complaint with CFTC
Two board members of the National Futures Association filed a complaint with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission alleging that the organization skirted its own rules in selecting candidates for the board and then falsified its records….
The dispute revolves around details of the nomination process for the NFA’s public representatives, who aren’t members of the industry. But Koutoulas and Roe maintain there are broader questions of professional conduct by NFA staff at issue, as well as the organization’s lack of transparency.
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2014 in Review: Geopolitics, Economies, and the US Farmer
Alexandra Lively, RMG’s Chicago News Bureau Chief, live interview with James Koutoulas, CEO Typhon, Robert Chesler, VP at INTL FCStone, and Bob Iaccino, Chief Market Strategist of Tethys Partners, covers the major events affecting financial markets throughout 2014.