Altegris CTA Challenge 2013 Continues To Build Momentum

The Altegris CTA Challenge evaluates daily total risk adjusted returns and position based analysis for each participating CTA (commodity trading advisor) program using Altegris’ proprietary technologies and analytics.

La Jolla, CA (I-Newswire) March 7, 2013 - Altegris Clearing Solutions is inviting the investment community to track the progress of the inaugural Altegris CTA Challenge 2013, a competition for professional managed futures managers.

Altegris Clearing Solutions, part of the Altegris Group of Companies, is a premier gateway to managed accounts for investors in managed futures.

The Altegris CTA Challenge evaluates daily total risk adjusted returns and position based analysis for each participating CTA (commodity trading advisor) program using Altegris’ proprietary technologies and analytics. Altegris also utilizes the Investor Analytics company software for measuring the risk of the participating CTA trading programs. The investment community can follow the Challenge and receive information about the participants, managed futures market commentary and other news related items by signing up at www.ctachallenge.com.

The website features the Challenge’s top five ranking programs year-to-date, as well as detailed information on the participants’ monthly performance percentages, strategy descriptions and performance statistics.

“This unique competition among Commodity Trading Advisors has been set in motion, and we would like investors, investment professionals, money managers and CTAs to come watch it unfold,” said Maxwell Eagye, Director of Altegris Clearing Solutions. “We take enormous pride in bringing what we believe are the best alternatives to a wide variety of investors, and the Altegris CTA Challenge is the next step in our commitment to further educate and bring awareness to the investment community about these dynamic managers and their innovative strategies.”

The Altegris CTA Challenge 2013 winner will be announced in early 2014 and will be selected based on both quantitative and qualitative scoring including daily total risk adjusted returns and position based analysis over the course of the Challenge.

About Altegris Clearing Solutions
Altegris Clearing Solutions, a CFTC-registered introducing broker, commodity trading advisor (CTA), and NFA member, introduces customer accounts to futures commission merchants, recommends a platform of futures trading programs and provides futures consulting services. Altegris Clearing Solutions and its affiliates (the Altegris Companies) are wholly owned subsidiaries of Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW) and are affiliated with Genworth Financial Wealth Management, Inc.

PAST RESULTS ARE NOT NECESSARILY INDICATIVE OF FUTURE RESULTS. For important information about investment risks, click on the following link: http://www.altegris.com/email-disclosure. For devices operating in plain text format, please copy and paste the link to your browser.

Please contact Jami Schlicher at 973-850-7309 or jschlicher@jcprinc.com, or Andrea Trachtenberg at 800-828-5225 or atrachtenberg@altegris.com, for more information.