HomeThis website and the accompanying white paper focus on the below list of 11 of the most widely followed CTA indices. Click on any of the index names to view a detailed summary on it:
Overview of CTA Indexes
CISDM CTA Equal Weighted Index
The CISDM CTA Equal Weighted Index is designed to broadly represent the performance of all CTA programs in the Morningstar database that meet the inclusion requirements.
The index calculation methodology is designed to exclude, each month, constituent performance deemed to be an outlier observation. Each month, statistics are generated for CTA programs in the Morningstar database that meet the inclusion requirements and that have reported returns for that month. Programs whose returns are +/- 3 standard deviations from the average return are excluded. The index return for the month is the simple average return of the non-excluded programs.
As of December 2014, there were 262 constituent programs in the index.
The proprietor of the CISDM CTA Equal Weighted Index is the Center of International Securities and Derivatives Markets (CISDM) and their research analysts calculate the index. CISDM provides Morningstar with the index on a monthly basis and it is available without cost on both Morningstar’s and CISDM’s websites. See CISDM’s website at www.isenberg.umass.edu/CISDM or contact Patricia Bonnett, Executive Director, at CISDM@isenberg.umass.edu.
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