USA blog: 'Superfund - the future of investing'

It is not every day you walk down one of the world's greatest shopping streets and come across what is described as ‘the future of investing'.

The street is the swanky Fifth Avenue in New York, and the group is making the claim is the boisterously named ‘Superfund'. After a quick walk inside to grab a couple brochures, I found the group specialises in managed futures funds. UK investors are likely to be aware of the managed futures concept , but it is more mainstream in the US. Superfund says managed futures traditionally provide a non-correlated investment to a portfolio of stock and bonds. They may be right on the non-correlation, with the group's Superfund Q-AG climbing 35.44% in the extremely difficult 2008. Howeve...