LOYD & CO.

The Loyd Group Asset Management business offers investors access to alternatives investments, exceptional performance, and principle protection. The group is characterized by its strong spirit of independence. Its management choices being firmly orientated towards active management, are based on strong convictions within concentrated portfolios. These portfolios are largely benchmark agnostic and their distinctive and innovative management styles stand out from the traditional asset management landscape.

The Group has thus developed a multi-specialist model based on research and innovation, to offer investors the very best in asset management.

We believe managed futures will outperform other alternatives in a market crisis, that there is much more to managed futures than trend following, that large managers have a declining return profile because of their size, that buy & hold commodity investing is overly risky, and that better portfolio diversification is achieved through allocating to multiple “right-sized” managers with meaningful commodity exposure across different markets, trading strategies, and time frames.

Over 65% of the assets in managed futures are controlled by just 3% of the managers, as investors choose the fancy brochures and pedigrees of the $1 Billion+ funds. But these managers have underperformed smaller managers – due to deleveraging to meet institutional targets, the inability to access less liquid commodity markets such as Cotton or Cocoa without hitting position limits, and the inevitable mental shift to protecting assets under management rather than growing them.

We believe there are better opportunities out there, for those willing and able to look, among the so called mid-tier managers who fly under the radar by only managing 10s to 100s of millions instead of billions. Such managers are ‘right-sized’, being small enough to still access commodity markets like Cotton, Corn, and Cattle; yet large enough to have professional grade operations.